People v. Ellis, III

This is an interlocutory appeal from a trial court order suppressing as evidence a quantity of contraband seized by officers of the Pueblo Police Department as the result of a search conducted pursuant to a search warrant. The defendant-appellees, Joseph Michael Ellis III, Karen Sue Ellis and William Randall Slaughter, are under indictment for possession of over one-half ounce of marijuana (C.R.S. 1963, 48-5-2), 1 possession of marijuana for purposes of sale (C.R.S. 1963, 48-5-20), 2 and conspiracy to possess a narcotic drug for sale (C.R.S. 1963, 40-2-201). 3

On May 23, 1974, the Pueblo…