State v. Chronister

BRETT, Judge.

This is an appeal by the State of Oklahoma upon a reserved question of law based upon the action of the District Court of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, in sustaining the defendant’s motion to suppress the evidence and in dismissing the prosecution.

Briefly, the facts upon which the appeal is predicated are as hereinafter related. The defendant R. L. Chronister and his accomplice, Wilbur Brian (both known to be police characters by arresting officers, French and Kroth) about midnight on March 9, 1959, were observed in the vicinity of Steffen’s Ice Cream plant carrying a “tow” sack…