Opinion
Argued April 13, 1950
Decided May 18, 1950
Appeal from the Clinton County Court, O'CONNELL, J.
Thomas A. Robinson and Joseph Murphy, in person, for Joseph Murphy, appellant.
Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney-General ( Herman N. Harcourt, Wendell P. Brown and Raymond B. Madden of counsel); Frank S. Hogan, District Attorney ( Charles W. Manning and Whitman Knapp of counsel), for respondent.
In affirming appellant's conviction in People v. Murphy ( 276 N.Y. 612), we found, upon the record before us, that there was sufficient evidence to support the conviction apart from the presumption provided in subdivision 1-a of section 1897 of the Penal Law, and that it was therefore unnecessary for us to pass upon the constitutionality of the statute. Accordingly, the order appealed from should be affirmed.
LOUGHRAN, Ch. J., LEWIS, CONWAY, DESMOND, DYE and FROESSEL, JJ., concur; FULD, J., taking no part.
Order affirmed.