People v. Flannagan

On a September evening in 1975, a lady, at the window of her second-floor apartment overlooking the building’s lobby entrance, overheard a conversation emanating from the sidewalk just below her, between the occupant of white-topped tan automobile and another person next to the car. One said that he had a gun and would like to shoot some unnamed person. She telephoned police at once, advising in detail what she had seen and heard; the dispatcher promptly alerted two radio patrol cars, giving the description of the car which he had just heard and noting that a gun was involved. (The…