State v. Hartman

Defendant was convicted of unlawful possession of narcotics. He appeals, assigning as sole error the denial of his motion to suppress certain evidence seized in his dormitory room pursuant to a search warrant.

On April 6, 1970, Sergeant Montgomery of the Corvallis city police department was informed by an anonymous phone call that one Cal Leo had in his possession at a stated address in residential Corvallis the drug marihuana. A search warrant was obtained and marihuana was discovered, although at the time of the search Leo was not present. Based on that evidence, however, an arrest warrant…