State v. Malone

The appellee, Leonard Malone, was charged with .uttering a forgery. He successfully moved to suppress incriminating physical evidence seized from his car, and the state appeals that suppression.

At the hearing on that motion it was shown that a police officer named Hershone received a dispatch indicating that a bank employee had called 911 to report that a man was attempting to cash a forged check. The suspect was described as a six foot black male and he was in the bank at the time of the call. Hershone arrived at the bank five minutes later and saw a black Chevy Blazer backed into a parking…