People v. Wood

One who alone occupies a room in a hotel or an apartment in an apartment house is deemed to have exclusive possession and control over those premises — at least for purposes of search and seizure in the criminal law — and no third party may consent to their being entered or searched by the police. (See Stoner v. California, 376 U. S. 483; Chapman v. United States, 365 U. S. 610.) The case'before us, however, is quite different. Here, the bedroom, which was searched, was actually shared by the defendant — a roomer in a one-family house owned by Mrs. Dale — and the latter’s 10-year-old.son.…