People v. Rice

Shortly after midnight in the early hours of December 14, 1966, Officer Smith of the San Diego police, in uniform and alone in a marked police car, saw defendant, who was then 19 years of age, standing on the sidewalk at the southeast corner of tile intersection of Lamont and Garnet Streets in the Pacific Beach area of San Diego; defendant appeared to be trying to hitch a ride.

The area was one in which there were many business houses which were closed, and also was an area in which currently there had been unsolved burglaries, the reports of which had come to Smith’s attention. There was no…