State v. Cannon

OWEN, Judge.

The State contends, and we think correctly so, that the trial court erred in granting appellees’ motions to suppress certain tangible evidence seized by the arresting officers at the time of the arrest.

Two officers of the Brevard County Sheriff’s Department received information at midnight from a reliable confidential informant that one Charles Miller (whom the police officers knew to be widely reputed as a heroin dealer in Brevard County) had just sold the informant twenty-five dollars worth of heroin, and that Miller had left his residence promising to return at 6 a. m. with an…