Judgment convicting defendant of criminally possessing a pistol as a felony (Penal Law, § 1897), unanimously affirmed.
Before enactment of section 1898-a of the Penal Law (now superseded by Penal Law, §§ 1899, 1900), mere presence in an automobile of a pistol and several persons was insufficient to establish constructive possession of the pistol by any of the persons (People v. Di Landri, 250 App. Div. 52; People ex rel. De Feo v. Warden of...
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