# People v. Maddox

> California Supreme Court · February 28, 1956 · 46 Cal. 2d 301

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9627820

## Case

- **Full name:** The PEOPLE, Respondent, v. ELJOE MADDOX, Appellant
- **Court:** California Supreme Court
- **Decided:** February 28, 1956
- **Citations:** 46 Cal. 2d 301; 294 P.2d 6; 1956 Cal. LEXIS 183
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Carter
- **Judges:** Carter
- **Cited by:** 273 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9627820

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that a statutory codification of the common law "may reasonably be interpreted as limited by ... common law rules" even though the common law rules are not mentioned in the statute
- holding that knock and announce not necessary where police have reasonable belief that evidence likely to be destroyed if presence known

## Opinion text

CARTER, J.
I concur in the judgment of affirmance because I believe that on the record before us the officers had reasonable grounds to believe that defendant was engaged in the commission of a felony at the time the search was executed and that the evidence obtained as the result of the search was therefore admissible against him.
Appellant’s petition for a rehearing was demed March 21, 1956.

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