Stanley v. State

The defendant, Stanley, was convicted of unlawful possession and control of a narcotic drug, a misdemeanor, tie contends that heroin, which was taken from him after an arrest which he says was unlawful, was wrongfully admitted at his trial. His reliance is on the combination of the holding of the Supreme Court in Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U. S. 643, 6 L. Ed. 2d 1081, that the proscription of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States against the use of evidence obtained by an unreasonable search and seizure is made applicable to the States by the Fourteenth Amendment, and the…