State v. Texeira

*139OPINION OF THE COURT BY

LEVINSON, J.

This case involves two important questions of criminal procedure and constitutional law: the test to be applied in determining whether an arrest without a warrant was based on probable cause and therefore whether a search incidental to that arrest was reasonable, and whether an officer should be required to reveal the name of an informer on whose information the officer relied in making an arrest without a warrant.

At 4:30 p.m. on March 1, 1965, officer Kim, a member of the narcotics detail of the Honolulu Police Department’s Vice Division, received a phone…