Murphy v. State

On February 8,1952, Virgil Murphy was placed under arrest by two highway patrolmen and his automobile searched under the following circumstances:

“The Highway Patrol, two of them stopped the defendant on the public road at or near Baxter Cross Roads, some seven, eight or nine miles west of Cooke-ville, and they checked his driver’s license, which the highway patrolmen had a right to do, and that they then asked him about searching his automobile, and that he, Virgil Murphy, told them he didn’t want them to search without a search warrant, probably rather they wouldn’t or words to that effect.…