Ball v. State

Four issues are raised on this appeal:

1. Did the police have probable cause to arrest the defendant?

2. Was the search of defendant’s trash can invalid ?

3. Was it error for the trial court to permit the officer to testify as to what he saw through the window of the storage trailer and to consider it in reaching a guilty verdict ?

4. Is there sufficient evidence to support defendant’s conviction of the crime of theft?

Probable cause for arrest.

Defendant’s first contention is that the trial court was without jurisdiction to proceed in this case to trial. Since an arrest warrant had not yet been…