Meadows v. State

George Rose Smith, Justice.

In this prosecution for possession of heroin with intent to deliver, the issue on appeal is the validity of a police search by which Meadows was found to be carrying drugs on his person. At a non-jury trial Meadows was found guilty and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. We agree with his insistence that the trial court should have suppressed the evidence produced by the search.

On the evening of February 8, 1978, Meadows and a companion, Rosco Duncan, both black, arrived by plane at the Little Rock airport. Three state policemen, Don Sanders, Bill Bounds, and Dave…