People v. Groves

Defendant appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict finding him guilty of the second de*1197gree burglary of a telephone booth (Pen. Code, §459). He contends that his arrest and the search incident thereto were unlawful and that the trial court therefore erred in admitting into evidence certain items seized during the search.

Late in the afternoon of December 9,1966, Mrs. Koonce and Mrs. Peters, employees at the University of California Hospital in San Francisco, heard an alarm indicating that someone was tampering with a coin receptacle in a telephone booth opposite their office. They saw…