Lloyd Charles Powell v. W. T. Stone, Warden

OPINION

Before MERRILL and BROWNING, Circuit Judges, and TAYLOR, * District Judge.

BROWNING, Circuit Judge:

Late one night appellant and three companions became involved in an altercation in the Bonanza Liquor Store in San Bernardino, California. Mary Parsons, wife of the manager, Gerald Parsons, was shot and killed. Ten hours later, appellant was arrested in Henderson, Nevada, for violation of a local vagrancy ordinance. Testimony regarding this arrest and the discovery of the murder weapon in appellant’s jacket pocket in a search incident to the arrest, was introduced in appellant’s subsequent…