STATE EX REL. PALERMO v. HAWSEY

No. 65652.

377 So.2d 338 (1979)

STATE of Louisiana ex rel. Michael S. PALERMO v. Honorable L. E. HAWSEY, Jr., Judge.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

November 20, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas L. Lorenzi, Hunt, Godwin, Painter & Roddy, Lake Charles, for plaintiff-relator.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Leonard K. Knapp, Jr., Dist. Atty., George V. Perez, Jr., Abbott J. Reeves, Asst. Dist. Attys., for defendant-respondent.


PER CURIAM.

Defendant is charged by bill of information with possession of phencyclidine, a violation of R.S. 40:967(C). He moved to suppress evidence of that contraband in the trial court. After a hearing conducted on July 10, 1979, the trial court denied the motion. We have granted defendant's application for supervisory writs to review that judgment. We now reverse.

Evidence at the hearing on the motion to suppress showed the following. On December 6, 1978...

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