Gainer v. State

Benham, Judge.

In this appeal from his conviction for possession of cocaine, appellant’s sole enumeration of error is that his motion to suppress was denied. The basis for his motion was that his arrest was illegal, rendering the subsequent search which revealed a bag of cocaine in his sock equally illegal. We disagree.

Appellant was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. The police officer who testified at the suppression hearing testified that while he and another officer were serving an arrest warrant, appellant and another man came to the arrestee’s home and were admitted. The officer…