Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Richard Ryan, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1961-11-27
Citations: 14 A.D.2d 926
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Richard Ryan, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 14
Pages: 926–927

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Richard Ryan, Appellant.

Opinion:
Defendant was charged with the theft of an automobile. As the result of a collision between the allegedly stolen automobile and a taxicab, the taxicab driver wrote the taxicab's license plate number on a ten-dollar bill which defendant handed him. A police officer thereafter searched defendant and seized said bill from his person. It is not clear from the record whether defendant was under arrest at the time of the search and seizure. In our opinion, in the absence of proof that defendant was legally under arrest at the time that the ten-dollar bill was taken from his person, such bill was improperly received in evidence (Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U. S. 643). The error may be reviewed although there was no exception in the trial court (Code Crim. Pro., § 527). No separate appeal lies from the intermediate orders, which have been reviewed on the appeal from the judgment of conviction, Nolan, P. J., Beldock, Ughetta, Christ and Pette, JJ., concur.