PEOPLE v. WHISENHUNT

No. 24794.

476 P.2d 997 (1970)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Eighteenth Judicial District, Robert R. Gallagher, Jr., District Attorney, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Roy Eric WHISENHUNT, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

November 9, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert R. Gallagher, Jr., Dist. Atty., 18th Judicial District, Littleton, for plaintiff-appellant.

Martin P. Miller, Richard B. Cossaboom, Littleton, for defendant-appellee.


DAY, Justice.

Ruling on a motion in the trial court to suppress certain evidence, the district court of Arapahoe County granted the motion. The court decision was based on the ground that the affidavit upon which the search warrant was issued did not allege that the possession of the drugs in question was a crime in the State of Colorado. The district attorney has filed this interlocutory appeal to the court's ruling under C.A.R. 4.1. We hold the court erred in so...

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