People v. Jackson

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County, rendered March 23, 1962 after a jury trial, convicting him of selling and possession of narcotic drugs (P’enal Law, § 1751, subd. 1; § 1751-a, subd. 1), and imposing sentence. Judgment affirmed. Although it was improper for the detective on cross-examination to testify that he recognized as defendant’s trade-mark the tinfoil covering of the packages which defendant had handed to another witness (because from such testimony it could have been inferred that defendant had been guilty of other similar crimes), we are of the…