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WHITTON v. STATE

No. 2256.

533 P.2d 266 (1975)

Raymond David WHITTON, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

April 1, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert D. Soll, Public Defender, Anchorage, Stephen R. Cline, Asst. Public Defender, Fairbanks, for appellant.

Norman C. Gorsuch, Atty. Gen., Juneau, Catherine A. Chandler, Dist. Atty., Harry L. Davis, Asst. Dist. Atty., Fairbanks, for appellee.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and ERWIN, BOOCHEVER and FITZGERALD, JJ.

OPINION

FITZGERALD, Justice.

Raymond Whitton was found guilty in the trial court of possession of heroin and now appeals from the conviction and sentence. His most substantial claim of error is that the police obtained a bench warrant on a minor charge as a pretext for making an otherwise unlawful search and so timed the arrest that a subsequent search was rendered unlawful. In addition Whitton challenges the sentence...

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