STATE v. HATCHER

No. 498-1.

3 Wn. App. 441 (1970)

475 P.2d 802

THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, Petitioner, v. HUGH THOMAS HATCHER, Respondent.

The Court of Appeals of Washington, Division One — Panel 1.

October 19, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles O. Carroll, Prosecuting Attorney, and James E. Anderson, Deputy, for petitioner.

Mary Fung Koehler, for respondent (appointed counsel for appeal).

Edmund J. Wood, amicus curiae.


JAMES, C.J.

Hugh Hatcher was charged by information with the unlawful possession of heroin. We review the ruling of the trial judge suppressing the evidence obtained when Hatcher was arrested.

A police detective obtained a search warrant upon a showing that a reliable informer had told him that he had "seen large quantities of heroin being cut and bindled in the living room" of the apartment described in the search warrant. On the same day seven or eight police...

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