State v. Erwin

PRITCHARD, Commissioner.

Appellant was convicted by the verdict of a jury of the possession of marijuana which assessed his punishment at six months in the County Jail. The claims for reversal on this appeal are that the search of the kitchen and other rooms of the house where appellant was arrested was unreasonable and in violation of his constitutional rights, and any evidence obtained thereby was inadmissible under Chimel v. California, 395 U.S. 752, 89 S.Ct. 2034, 23 L.Ed.2d 685; and that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the conviction because, as argued, the evidence merely showed…