[DOWNLOAD] "Powell v. Stone" by United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Powell v. Stone
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Release Date : January 04, 1974
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
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BROWNING, Circuit Judge: Late one night appellant and three companions became involved in an altercation in the Bonanza Liquor Store in San Bernardino, California. Mary Parsons, wife of the manager, Gerald Parsons, was shot and killed. Ten hours later, appellant was arrested in Henderson, Nevada, for violation of a local vagrancy ordinance. Testimony regarding this arrest and the discovery of the murder weapon in appellant's jacket pocket, in a search incident to the arrest, was introduced in appellant's subsequent trial for murder in the Superior Court of San Bernardino County. The California trial court rejected appellant's objection that the evidence should have been excluded because the Henderson vagrancy ordinance was unconstitutional and the arrest and search incident thereto were therefore illegal. Appellant was convicted of second-degree murder.