State v. Martin

The appellant, Jon W. Martin, was charged with various crimes involving assaults of a sexual nature upon women in the Seattle area. He was found by a jury to be guilty of kidnapping in the first degree, sodomy, and four counts of assault in the second degree. Judgment and sentence were entered on February 1, 1967. Defendant’s appeal 1 challenges the lawfulness of the search and seizure of certain items and their admission in evidence against him.

Defendant was arrested without warrant in the late afternoon of September 29, 1966 in Seattle. There is no question that the police had probable…