STATE v. CABAGE


649 S.W.2d 589 (1983)

STATE of Tennessee, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Ray Allen CABAGE, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

March 21, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Leech, Jr., Atty. Gen., J. Andrew Hoyal, II, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Charles Fels, Asst. Dist. Atty. Gen., Knoxville, for plaintiff-appellant.

John Douglas Godbee, Knoxville, for defendant-appellee.


DROWOTA, Justice.

We granted the State's Rule 11 application to consider the suppression of evidence, found in a closed and locked container, obtained as a result of a routine inventory search of Defendant's truck, which truck was seized pursuant to T.C.A. § 52-1443 of the Tennessee Drug Control Act.

On June 5, 1979, an officer of the Knoxville Police Department, in response to a complaint that a drunk person was on the premises, went to the Pride Car...

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