State v. Ward

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Price, C. J.:

This is an appeal from a conviction of grand larceny —the subject of the theft being a pay-telephone owned by the telephone company in Wichita.

Highly summarized — the state’s evidence showed the following:

At about 8:30 in the evening of July 6, 1965, defendant Ward was stopped and arrested for speeding by Wichita police officers. In the front seat with him was a man by the name of Vogt. Through past “contact,” both were “known” to the officers. While checking defendant’s driver’s license the officers requested permission to search the car.…