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- Title: State v. Paul v. Harris
- Author : Supreme Court of Missouri En Banc
- Release Date : January 19, 1963
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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The facts involved in this case are practically undisputed. At 12:45 a.m. on August 2, 1960, defendant was sitting in his parked automobile on Benjamin Street Northeast, just off 45th Street, in Columbia Heights. At the same time Officers Melvin Land and John Marchiniak of the Columbia Heights Police Department were patrolling the area in an unmarked vehicle. As the officers turned onto Benjamin Street from 45th Street, they noticed that defendants automobile was parked at an odd angle with the rear pointing into a driveway where a trailer holding a boat was parked. As they approached defendants automobile, they noticed that he was looking backward toward the home near which the trailer was parked. They immediately investigated, ordered defendant to step out of his car, and asked him what he was doing. He stated that he had become lost while going to meet a friend at a nearby grocery; that he had become confused by all the detours in the area and "was just sitting there trying to think it over." Noticing a black bag in the back seat of defendants automobile, Officer Land asked defendant to show it to him, and defendant opened it. Defendant stated that there was "just a bunch of old clothes" in the bag. In it the officers found a .22-caliber revolver, a T-shirt, and three red bandanas. Defendant was then handcuffed and placed in the officers car, and the search was continued. It revealed a .380-caliber automatic pistol under the front seat; some bank books, later found to belong to a robbery victim; an extra 1960 license plate; and a key to a room in a Minneapolis hotel.