Smelley v. State

BOWEN, Presiding Judge.

Eighteen-year-old Bill Kim Smelley was adjudicated a delinquent on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon in violation of Alabama Code 1975, § 13A-11-50. From this adjudication of delinquency the juvenile appeals.

On November 26, 1984, Anniston Police Officer Kenneth Bunn received a radio dispatch that two juveniles at Jerry’s Coin Laundry were harassing the customers. Pursuant to an investigative-type stop authorized by Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968), Officer Bunn frisked Smelley and discovered a lock-blade knife in his right front…