People v. Singleteary

Chief Judge Breitel.

Defendant, sentenced to prison from 25 years to life, appeals from a conviction after a jury trial for murder and related offenses committed in the course of robberies and beatings to which two elderly victims were subjected. One of the victims died as a result of the beating.

*530The only issue of consequence concerns the police search of an automobile and seizure of certain of its contents which inculpated defendant and corroborated the testimony of an accomplice. The search and seizure were effected without a warrant. The automobile had been parked on a public street in the…