Legal Opinion

State v. Paulson

Montana Supreme Court

Decided August 1, 1975No. 12910PublishedCited by 27 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MR. JUSTICE JOHN C. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Defendant Leon Albert Paulson appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in the district court, Yellowstone County, convicting him of criminal possession of marijuana, a felony.

On July 21, 1974, Craig Cunningham, a Yellowstone County deputy sheriff then attached to the city-county narcotic squad, received a telephone call from one Sergeant Wolf of the Metropolitan Narcotics Team, Tucson, Arizona. Wolf relayed information given him by an informant who was “involved in making shipment cases almost exclusively for his…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Brinegar v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
  2. Ker v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  3. Draper v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
  4. United States v. RabinowitzSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
  5. Williams v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1953

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3Cited by27 opinions

  1. State v. LenihanMontana Supreme Court · 1979
  2. State v. FitzpatrickMontana Supreme Court · 1980
  3. State v. CloseMontana Supreme Court · 1981
  4. State ex rel. Townsend v. District Court of the Fourth Judicial DistrictMontana Supreme Court · 1975
  5. State v. KellyMontana Supreme Court · 1983

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