The following excerpt is from People v. Caliente, 12 N.Y.2d 89, 187 N.E.2d 550, 236 N.Y.S.2d 945 (N.Y. 1962):
1 Even accepting the reasoning of the majority the policeman observed sufficient acts of the defendant to make out a prima facie case of the crime of book-making. The defendant's furtive conduct supplied the elements we noted as missing in People v. Carpenito, 292 N.Y. 498, 55 N.E.2d 754.
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