Gonzales v. State

Interval between offense and arrest.

Defendant argues the delay between the offense of sale of heroin and the arrest entitles him to a judicial inquiry as to whether such delay was unreasonable and prejudicial and cites Ross v. United States (D. C. Cir. 1965), 349 Fed. 2d 210; Woody v. United States (D. C. Cir. 1966), 370 Fed. 2d 214; Godfrey v. United States (D. C. Cir. 1966), 358 Fed. 2d 850; and State v. Rountree (1969), 106 N. J. Super. 135, 254 Atl. 2d 337. However, substantially the same contention was made in State v. Midell (1968), 40 Wis. 2d 516, 520-522, 162 N. W. 2d 54, and is…