STATE v. PREVETTE

No. 788SC753.

250 S.E.2d 682 (1979)

39 N.C. App. 470

STATE of North Carolina v. Gaither Dean PREVETTE, William Norman Stafford, Walter Lee St. John, Randy Marylon Grimes, Phillip Mark Sutton and Francis Earl Wood.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

January 16, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Asst. Atty. Gen. Isham B. Hudson, Jr., Raleigh, for the State.

Gerrans & Spence by C. E. Gerrans, Kinston, for defendants Gaither D. Prevette, William N. Stafford, Walter L. St. John, and Randy M. Grimes.

White, Allen, Hooten, Hodges & Hines by Thomas J. White and W. H. Paramore, III, Kinston, for defendants Phillip M. Sutton and Francis E. Wood.


HARRY C. MARTIN, Judge.

These appeals result from proceedings under N.C.G.S. 15A-979(b). The evidence produced at the hearing on the motions to suppress tended to show that quantities of marijuana were seized by law enforcement officers in the house, barn, other outbuildings, and from the open fields of property referred to as "Wood's Dairy Farm" in Lenoir County. The officers did not have a search warrant. Defendants Grimes, Prevette, and Stafford were arrested in...

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