State v. Hall

VAUGHN, Judge.

The dispositive issue brought forward by defendant in this appeal is whether the trial court erred in denying defendant’s motion to suppress the evidence of the LSD tablets at trial. In this respect, defendant believes his conviction must be reversed on either of the following two theories: (1) that his vehicle was improperly seized on 9 April 1979, thereby rendering any subsequent search of its contents invalid and unreasonable or (2) that the officers’ search of a closed medicine bottle exceeded the permissible scope of a valid inventory search of a lawfully impounded vehicle.…