State v. King

Judge Harold R. Banke.

Beverly Mae King was charged with shoplifting, theft by receiving, and giving a false name to a police officer. Enumerating two errors, the State appeals the grant of King’s motion to suppress.

At the suppression hearing, Officer Ray C. West testified that at about 6:37 p.m., he responded to a report of a shoplifting incident at a Bass Outlet store in Calhoun. West intercepted King outside the store in possession of a leather pocketbook, identified as belonging to the store. Bass Outlet officials decided to prosecute King who lived in Atlanta. As West placed King into his…