State v. Laursen

Defendants, David H. and Jois Irene Laursen, husband and wife, were both convicted on two counts of possession of drugs in violation of RCW 69.50.401 (c). Defendants’ two principal contentions on appeal are that: (1) evidence used against them should have been suppressed because it was seized in an unlawful search of their premises; and (2) evidence of their possession of the contraband drugs was insufficient to support their convictions.

In the afternoon of May 3, 1974, Longview police officers executed a search warrant on defendants’ premises in a sparsely populated part of the city of…