People v. Anonymous

This is a motion to suppress certain books seized by the police. In the hearing before me the patrolman who made the arrest testified that on a Sunday in July he saw a young man walking on a street in Hicksville carrying a cardboard carton containing books. He pulled alongside the defendant, questioned him and then insisted on looking to see what was in the box. When he saw there were books, he asked the boy where he got them. The boy told him that he had found the books near a school. He asked the boy to accompany him there, and the boy at first said he would rather not, and instead offered…