Summary

In People v. Engelbrect (260 App. Div. 912), in a prosecution for leaving the scene of an accident, a witness copied the license number of an automobile on a match box; thereafter she gave the match box to a patrolman who copied the number on a temporary memorandum pad and threw the match box away; later the patrolman recopied the number into his permanent memorandum book and discarded the temporary pad.