Horack v. Superior Court

Opinion

MOSK, J.

This is a petition for a writ of mandate after the respondent superior court denied petitioner’s pretrial motion pursuant to Penal Code section 1538.5 to suppress evidence seized in a search of a residence. Petitioner is charged with the unlawful possession of marijuana.

*723On Saturday, June 28, 1969, Officer Thompson of the Newport Beach Police Department, while on patrol duty in a police vehicle, received a radio message from the dispatcher informing him that a Mrs. Hamplin of 521 Riverside, Newport Beach, had telephoned to report that she had seen two “hippie-type” individuals…