State v. McGovern

This case is before us on a writ of error sought by the state to reverse an order entered by the trial court suppressing admission into evidence of a cigarette butt and a jar of material seized by police in a room in which the defendant was a visitor and alleged by the state to be marijuana. We hold that under the facts as found by the trial court the evidence was properly suppressed. We therefore affirm the trial court’s order.

In the early morning hours of July 15, 1975 the Dunn County Sheriff’s Department received a telephone call from a man complaining that there were loud noises, loud…