People v. Doemer

Defendant, Frank Doemer, Jr., was convicted of unlawful possession of marijuana (MCLA § 335.153 [Stat Ann 1957 Rev § 18.1123]). After a three-day jury trial in Macomb County Circuit Court, defendant was sentenced to 1-1/2 to 10 years in prison. He appeals as of right.

The relevant facts are these. Leroy Baker, a Fraser police officer, on information from a reliable informant that a shipment of narcotics was coming in a Volkswagen from California to defendant’s parent’s home, engaged in a surveillance of that home on October 15, 1969, with members of the Clinton Township Police Department. The…