Opinion
Argued July 11, 1968.
Affirmed October 16, 1968.
Appeal from Circuit Court, Multnomah County, PAUL R. HARRIS, Judge.
AFFIRMED.
Oscar D. Howlett, Portland, argued the cause and filed a brief for appellant.
Jacob B. Tanzer, Assistant Chief Deputy District Attorney, Portland, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was George Van Hoomissen, District Attorney, Portland.
Before McALLISTER, Presiding Justice, and O'CONNELL and DENECKE, Justices.
The defendant was indicted jointly with her husband, Albert Henry, for illegal possession of narcotics. The husband was tried separately, convicted and his conviction affirmed on appeal. State v. Henry, 249 Or. 287, 437 P.2d 851 (1968). The defendant was tried later, was also convicted, and now appeals from her conviction.
In this court defendant challenges only the denial of her motion to suppress the evidence because the police used electronic eavesdropping in gathering evidence against her. The police admittedly secreted a microphone and transmitter on an informer and listened to and recorded the informer's conversation with defendant and her husband while he purchased two marijuana cigarettes from them. In the husband's case we held that the same evidence was admissible because the information gained by electronic surveillance was not used to secure the warrant authorizing the search and seizure which produced the evidence which defendant sought to suppress. Our ruling in State v. Albert Henry, supra, is controlling here.
Affirmed.