Legal Opinion
State v. Towles
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided November 9, 1967PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHouse, J.
The defendant was found guilty by a jury of possessing and selling a narcotic drug, marihuana, in violation of § 19-246 of the General Statutes. Before the trial, he filed a motion to suppress evidence consisting of two marked $5 bills, claiming that that evidence was obtained as the result of an illegal search of the defendant made at the time of his arrest. On this appeal, he claims error in the court’s denial of that motion, error in a subsequent ruling of the court admitting into evi dence, during the trial, the currency and a plastic bag containing packets of marihuana, error in the…
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