People v. Burke

Appeal from a judgment of conviction of the Ulster County Court of feloniously possessing narcotics (Penal Larw, § 1751, subd. [3]) and unlawfully possessing narcotics (Penal Law, § 1751-a). On December 27, 1962 State Police officers acting on the basis of information supplied by an informant about a contemplated narcotics sale observed appellant and his eodefendant conversing with a known narcotics user at a bus depot in Kingston. Thereafter the three men left the depot and drove away in a car operated by the codefendant. With the police officers following, the ear proceeded over a short,…