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- Title: State v. Bausman
- Author : Supreme Court of Connecticut
- Release Date : January 01, 1972
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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The defendant, in a trial to the jury,
was convicted of having narcotic drugs under his
control in violation of 8 and 37(a) of Public Act
No. 555 of 1967, now 19-452 and 19-481 (a) of the
General Statutes (Rev. to 1968). The defendant's
motion to set aside the verdict was denied by the
trial court and from the judgment rendered thereon
the defendant has appealed to this court. The defendant assigns error in several rulings
made by the trial court. In order to pass on these
rulings a brief resume of the evidence presented
by the state and by the defendant is necessary. On
May 15, 1968, Thomas P. Rowan, a detective in the
Stamford police department, accompanied by Detectives
Edward McNulty and Albert Morris, went to
a house located at 41 Long Hill Road in Stamford
with a search warrant authorizing them to search
the premises for narcotics. After the defendant
Cooke Bausman III was advised of the search
warrant he admitted Detective Rowan into the
house. On the first floor there were a living
room, a dining room, a kitchen, two bedrooms, a
utility room, a bathroom and a porch. On the
second floor there were three bedrooms, a utility
room and a bathroom. Detective Morris went to the
back door and was admitted to the premises by
another detective. On a dresser, behind the mirror
in one of the first-floor bedrooms, he found a
plastic bag containing, inter alia, a substance
identified as marijuana by Abraham Stolman, the
chief toxicologist of the state department of
health. In the same bedroom the detective found
letters addressed to the defendant Bausman,
receipts with Bausman's name on them and clothing.
The defendant testified that he had lived in the
first-floor bedroom and was in the process of
changing to an upstairs room and that he
[162 Conn. 310]