STATE v. TEXEIRA

No. 4573.

433 P.2d 593 (1967)

STATE of Hawaii v. Abel TEXEIRA.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

November 1, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ambrose J. Rosehill, Honolulu, for appellant.

Barclay Bryan, Deputy Pros. Atty., City and County of Honolulu (John H. Peters, Pros. Atty., Honolulu, on the brief), for respondent.

Before RICHARDSON, C. J., and MIZUHA, MARUMOTO, ABE and LEVINSON, JJ.


LEVINSON, Justice.

This case involves two important questions of criminal procedure and constitutional law: the test to be applied in determining whether an arrest without a warrant was based on probable cause and therefore whether a search incidental to that arrest was reasonable, and whether an officer should be required to reveal the name of an informer on whose information the officer relied in making an arrest without a warrant.

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