POLICE SCIENCE LEGAL ABSTRACTS AND NOTES.

This article presents abstracts of several legal papers on criminology. Defendant was convicted of illegally possessing heroin. He was arrested by a police officer who had received a tip from an informant whose help had resulted in previous narcotics arrests and convictions. The informant disclosed that the defendant was trading in narcotics at a certain address. In this case, the arrest of a person and search premises from a single informer is valid if informer is reliable. In another case, a defendant was convicted of speeding. Introduced into evidence over her objection before the municipal court was the alleged speed she was travelling as measured by a radar speed meter. The Supreme Court of Arkansas upheld the conviction, holding that such evidence was properly admitted. The court takes judicial knowledge of reliability of radar for testing speed of automobiles. Meanwhile, a plaintiff was arrested by a police officer for driving while intoxicated. During the arrest, the police officer struck the plaintiff, causing the loss of sight in one of his eyes. The evidence disclosed that the police officer was hired on a trial basis and was given no training. In this case, the municipality is liable for tortious acts of a police officer.