Jones v. State

Birdsong, Chief Judge.

Appellant, James Warren Jones, was convicted of two counts of burglary. He appeals basing his sole enumeration of error on the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress. Specifically, appellant asserts that the search of his automobile was based on an “improper inventory search where the appellant’s automobile was not a hazard to traffic nor was it related to the appellant’s arrest, nor was he given the choice of an alternate disposition to the impoundment” of the automobile.

At approximately 3:00 a.m., Patrolman Cranor of the Henry County Sheriffs Department…