Teat v. State

The defendant was indicted and convicted for theft in the first degree. He was sentenced as an habitual offender to life imprisonment.

This Court has no difficulty in determining that the two St. Clair County Sheriff's deputies were lawfully on the defendant's property on an "investigating mission." Franklin v.State, 357 So.2d 364 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied, 357 So.2d 368 (Ala. 1978). From the record it appears that the deputies had a "legitimate reason for being present" in the precise location where they observed the contents of the Chevrolet whose driver's door was open. Coolidge v. New…