Ellison v. State

AREND, Justice.

This appeal arises out of a conviction of the defendant Ellison for receiving and concealing a sixteen-inch pry bar with knowledge that the bar had been stolen. One of the questions we are asked to decide is whether the evidence upon which the defendant was convicted was procured by an illegal search and seizure in violation of his federal and state constitutional rights and should have been suppressed by the trial court. The defendant’s pretrial motion to suppress the use of the crowbar as evidence at the trial was denied below. In ruling upon the motion, the court had the…