Nash v. State

HERRMANN, Justice:

In this drug case, we are called upon to decide whether the search and seizure was reasonable, and consonant with the Fourth Amendment, under the standards of Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968). The defendants were tried and convicted separately upon charges of possession of heroin with intent to sell and possession of a hypodermic syringe. Their appeals have been consolidated.

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Near midnight, on the shoulder of a dark and isolated portion of U. S. 13, the defendants were discovered by the State police standing near a parked automobile bearing…