PEOPLE v. CHAVEZ

Docket No. 15161.

275 Cal.App.2d 54 (1969)

79 Cal. Rptr. 701

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ISADOR CHAVEZ, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Three.

July 23, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard S. Buckley, Public Defender, Stuart R. Rappaport, John J. Gibbons and James L. McCormick, Deputy Public Defenders for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and George J. Roth, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


COBEY, Acting P.J.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of possession of marijuana. [1] The sole issue is whether the police had probable cause to make a warrantless arrest of appellant solely on the basis of the information supplied them by an unknown and untested citizen informer. There was no corroboration, prior to their search of his person incident to his arrest, of his having committed the felony, possession of marijuana, for which he...

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