People v. Malinsky

Sometime during the week end of January 6 and 7, 1962, a trailer of Whippet Motors, Inc., loaded with 1,298 cartons containing drugs and cosmetics belonging to First National Stores, was stolen from Whippet’s terminal in Boston, Massachusetts. The theft was reported to the police of that city, immediately following its discovery, on Sunday, January 7. Three 'days later, on January 10, police officers of the New York City Police Department, acting pursuant to a search warrant, seized the stolen cartons as they were being removed by the defendants from certain premises—variously called a…