State v. Odam

*553RICHARDSON, J.

The state appeals an order suppressing evidence seized from a vehicle in which defendants were riding. The issue is whether the stop of the motor vehicle was lawful.

In the early afternoon of August 19, 1978, a State Police Officer assigned to fish and game enforcement stopped the vehicle in which the defendants were riding. He seized two freshly killed deer carcasses and issued citations to the three defendants charging them with illegal possession of deer. The stop was made on a private road owned by a timber company.

At the hearing on defendants’ motion to suppress the deer…