State v. Cabage

DROWOTA, Justice.

We granted the State’s Rule 11 application to consider the suppression of evidence, found in a closed and locked container, obtained as a result of a routine inventory search of Defendant’s truck, which truck was seized pursuant to T.C.A. § 52-1443 of the Tennessee Drug Control Act.

On June 5, 1979, an officer of the Knoxville Police Department, in response to a complaint that a drunk person was on the premises, went to the Pride Car Wash in Knoxville. When he arrived he found the Defendant’s truck parked near the vacuum hose island, and he found the Defendant holding onto the…