State v. Branch

This appeal is by the state from an order sustaining a motion to suppress (ORS 138.060(4)) narcotics evidence seized from defendant in a room at the Thunderbird Motel near the Columbia River bridge in Multnomah County.

Sergeant Englert of the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Department answered a call from the night manager of the motel summoning him to investigate a narcotics situation.

At the motel the manager showed him some residue he said a motel maid had given him from a mess she said she had cleaned up in Room 310. The man*250ager also said that a motel telephone operator had told him that the…