State v. McGee

Defendant was convicted upon jury trial of illegal possession of narcotics in violation of ORS 474.020. He appeals assigning as error (1) denial of his pretrial motion to suppress marihuana and a brass smoking pipe seized by the police at the time of his arrest and (2) failure to sustain his objection to the introduction of the above items into evidence at trial.

This prosecution developed out of a quarrel between a landlord and his tenants over payment for some broken windows in the dwelling house. The tenants were defendant, his fiancee and another young couple. The landlord, who was the…