State v. Erickson

Defendant was convicted upon trial by jury of the crime of being an ex-convict in possession of a firearm. His sole assignment of error on appeal is that the court erred in denying his motion to suppress as evidence a loaded automatic pistol seized from his automobile.

Officer Dennis Daly of the Portland Police Department, while operating a prowl car during the late evening of April 12, 1968, noticed a Volkswagen proceeding at what appeared to him to be an excessive rate of speed. Officer Daly followed this vehicle for a few blocks and then caused the driver, defendant Erickson, to stop.…