State v. Patterson

Defendant, Paul Clifford Patterson, appeals from the judgment and sentence following conviction by the court, sitting without a jury, of two counts of unlawful possession of dangerous drugs and one count of carrying a concealed weapon.

The undisputed facts are that at 9 a.m. on April 7, 1971, two police officers stopped to investigate a car parked in Volunteer Park in the city of Seattle. The front license plate was attached to the car with string and Patterson was sleeping in the back seat of his vehicle. The officers awakened him and asked him for identification. When he produced none, they…