Scarbrough v. State

Christopher M. Scarbrough, the appellant, was convicted of felony-murder as a lesser included offense of the capital murder of John C. Johnson for which he had been indicted. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. On this appeal from that conviction, the appellant contends that his confession should have been suppressed because there was no probable cause for his arrest and because his confession was the product of an illegal pretextual arrest.

I

The victim was murdered in his apartment on January 31, 1990. The police began searching for the appellant the next day after learning that he had…