State v. Welton

POWERS, Justice.

In three misdemeanor prosecutions initiated by separate informations, the State charged that Wesley William Welton unlawfully carried a weapon, drove an automobile while intoxicated, and possessed a controlled substance. Welton moved in each case, before trial, to suppress evidence discovered by a police officer in his warrantless roadside search of an automobile driven by Welton, ostensibly authorized by Welton’s contemporaneous arrest for driving while intoxicated. After an evi-dentiary hearing, the court found a want of probable cause for an arrest on that ground, and…