State v. Tilley

CLARK, Judge.

Defendant made a pretrial motion to suppress all written and oral statements made by him to law enforcement officers on the ground that such statements were the fruit of an arrest made without probable cause.

After the hearing on the motion, the court made findings of fact based on the testimony of Officers Robert D. Mauldin, Lt. David Griggs, and Billy Brown for the State and Barry Lee Whitehead for the defendant, as follows:

“That on November 30, 1978, at or near the Tillett Motor Company, Manteo, North Carolina, and at or about 2:30 A.M., a Manteo police department patrolman,…