OVALLE v. SUPERIOR COURT OF CONTRA COSTA CTY.

Docket No. 20466.

202 Cal.App.2d 760 (1962)

21 Cal. Rptr. 385

JOHN OVALLE, Petitioner, v. SUPERIOR COURT OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

April 25, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Sheahan and Calfee & Westover for Petitioner.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, John S. McInerny and John F. Foran, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.


TOBRINER, J.

This petition for prohibition urges that an arrest without a warrant cannot be based upon the ground that, although the information prompting petitioner's arrest came from an unknown informer, the fact that the informer was in custody improved his reliability and afforded probable cause for the arrest. We shall set forth our reasons for concurring with this contention of petitioner; we must, however, deny the writ because petitioner himself, as we shall...

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