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MURPHY v. STATE

254 S.W.2d 979 (1953)

MURPHY v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

February 6, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maddux & Cameron and Keith Bohannon, Cookeville, for plaintiff in error.

Knox Bigham, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

NEIL, Chief Justice.

On February 8, 1952, Virgil Murphy was placed under arrest by two highway patrolmen and his automobile searched under the following circumstances:

"The Highway Patrol, two of them stopped the defendant on the public road at or near Baxter Cross Roads, some seven, eight or nine miles west of Cookeville, and they checked his driver's license, which the highway patrolmen had a right to do, and...

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