People v. Hunyadi

— Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Clinton County (Feinberg, J.), rendered January 4, 1982, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of promoting prison contraband in the first degree. The facts in the instant case are largely uncontested. It was reported to correction officials that defendant, a prison inmate, and another inmate exchanged something in a suspicious manner in the prison yard. Both were frisked when brought to the housing area. Defendant was found to have a thermos bottle in his possession in the lining of which was found a table knife, whose end was…