State v. Patterson

The principal question involved on these appeals is whether without a warrant the entry and search of an apartment where the crime of possessing a controlled' substance, heroin, with intent to deliver, distribute, or dispense, was being committed and where the arrests on the charge took place, were lawful because justified by the circumstances and therefore not unreasonable. Upon this determination rests the correctness of the decision of the lower court in denying suppression of the physical evidence seized during the search., On March 27, 1973, about 2 o’clock p.m., pursuant to information…