Ferrell v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Sampson —

Affirming.

The sheriff of Mercer county received information by telephone that a strange automobile, enclosed with curtains and covered with mud, was standing on a cross pike about four miles from town, with two men in it. Immediately the sheriff with three deputies traveling by automobile went to see about the strange car. They found it at the spot designated by the informant. The sheriff drove his car up in front of the strange car, stopping only a few feet therefrom. He and his deputies unloaded, one of the deputies going to the right of the…