LBB, III v. State

Deen, Judge.

While a police officer may arrest for a crime committed in his presence, that is, of which he is aware through the use of his senses (Code § 27-207), and while there are circumstances under which he may momentarily detain and question a citizen, if he is acting upon reasonable and articulable suspicion which may yet not amount to probable cause to believe a crime is being committed (Brooks v. State, 129 Ga. App. 109), this gives him no right, where a crime is not being committed in his presence in such manner that it is known to him by the use of his senses, to stop a vehicle and…