STATE v. SHAW

No. 79-96-III.

603 S.W.2d 741 (1980)

STATE of Tennessee, Appellant, v. Jimmie Lee SHAW, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee.

June 10, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Zimmermann, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, David L. Raybin, Asst. Dist. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for appellant.

Robert M. Garfinkle and Dan Garfinkle, Nashville, for appellee.


OPINION

DAUGHTREY, Judge.

In this appeal the State contests the trial court's pretrial order suppressing evidence of the search and seizure of a quantity of cocaine from the appellee-defendant's person and from his automobile. The trial judge held that the arresting officers' failure to secure a search warrant was in violation of the "exigent circumstances rule" of Rippy v. State, 550 S.W.2d 636, 640-41 (Tenn. 1977...

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