STATE v. MORGAN

No. 48,412

222 Kan. 149 (1977)

563 P.2d 1056

STATE OF KANSAS, Appellant, v. GARTH E. MORGAN, FARRELL D. HAUSER, SHELDON W. CORDRY, LESLIE M. MORGAN and O'LINDA D. SOLORIO, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed April 9, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen M. Joseph, assistant district attorney, argued the cause, and Curt T. Schneider, attorney general, Vern Miller, district attorney, and Robert L. Kennedy, Jr., assistant district attorney, were on the brief for the appellant.

Jack Focht, of Smith, Shay, Farmer & Wetta, of Wichita, and William D. Rustin, of Wallace, Rustin, Just, Dewey & Thomas, of Wichita, argued the cause and were on the brief for the appellees.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

OWSLEY, J.:

This is an interlocutory appeal by the state from an order suppressing evidence obtained under a search warrant.

The search warrant was issued as the result of almost a month of investigative work by the Wichita Police Department narcotics section. Detective John Hayworth made contact with a young couple who offered to obtain drugs for him, unaware that he was a police officer. After Hayworth made...

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