People v. Brown

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Albany County (Canfield, J.), rendered January 19, 1993, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree.

On January 11, 1992, the police received an anonymous phone call advising that there were guns under a mattress in a bedroom at 444 Clinton Avenue in the City of Albany. Officers responded to that residence, obtained permission to search the apartment and, ultimately, found three handguns and a shotgun under the mattress in defendant’s bedroom. Defendant was thereafter indicted and charged…