State v. Anderson

Steele Hays, Justice.

This case comes to us on a petition to review a decision of the Court of Appeals because a legal principle of major importance, the changing law of search and seizure, is involved. The Court of Appeals reversed the trial court and the state petitioned for review. We affirm the Court of Appeals.

Officer Jerry Ridgell, Stuttgart Police Department, appeared before the circuit judge at approximately 2:00 a.m. on the morning of April 13,1983 to obtain a warrant to search the home of Charles Ray Anderson, Jr., the respondent here, where Ridgell had observed a drug sale the…