State v. Parras

Defendant was convicted of rape in the first degree, [e appeals, contending that the trial court erred in efusing to suppress certain incriminating evidence ázed as a result of defendant’s warrantless arrest in is apartment, there having been no exigent circum-tances to justify police entry.

On Sunday, March 19, 1978, at 6:10 a.m. a county ndersheriff received a report that a rape had occurred uring the preceding two hours. The officer arrived at íe scene at 6:33 and spoke with the victim, who escribed the incident, identified the defendant as the ipist and stated that he had not left his…