People v. Goldstein

This conviction of hook-making is based on the testimony of the police officer who observed defendant near a busy Manhattan street corner in the early afternoon. Pour men in turn approached defendant during a forty-minute period. Each of them had a short conversation with defendant and each then gave him money, the first two after consulting scratch sheets which list the horses entered in the day’s races. As a fourth man approached defendant, the police officer came near and heard the man say “ $2 to win on Yawl,” a horse scheduled to run that day. The officer then followed defendant to a…