People v. Chestnut

On January 6, 1977, the defendant herein was arraigned in the Criminal Court of the City of New York on two separate accusatory instruments charging him with criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of stolen property (Penal Law, §§ 265.02, 165.40) in one *895complaint and criminal possession of a controlled substance (Penal Law, § 220.03) in the other, all three offenses alleged to have been committed at precisely the same date, time and place. Subsequently, on January 20, 1977, the instant indictment, which accuses the defendant of criminal possession of a weapon in the third…