Cooper v. California

Petitioner was convicted in a California state court of selling heroin to a police informer. The conviction rested in part on the introduction in evidence of a small piece of a brown paper sack seized by police without a warrant from the glove compartment of an automobile which police, upon petitioner’s arrest, had impounded and were holding in a garage. The search occurred a week after the arrest of petitioner. Petitioner appealed his convic*59tion to the California District Court of Appeal which, considering itself bound by our holding and opinion in Preston v. United States, 376 U. S. 364,…