State v. Jones

Defendant was convicted of illegal possession of narcotics and received a five-year sentence. He appeals alleging the trial court erred in denying his pretrial motion to suppress evidence which he claimed was obtained by an unlawful search and seizure.

The undisputed evidence at the suppression hearing was as follows:

Officer Giani, an experienced narcotics officer of the Portland Police Department, was the passenger in a police car which had been parked in front of a bank at S. W. Sixth and Madison streets in Portland. The driver, Officer Snyder, had entered the bank to cash a cheek and…