State Ex Rel. Tessler v. Kubiak

The main contention of appellant is that the search of his car was illegal. If true, the later seizure of the tools was illegal and the motion to suppress the evidence should have been granted. The appellant testified upon the motion to suppress the evidence that the car he was driving was stopped by a police squad car at an early hour on May 21, 1949. A police sergeant in uniform asked him why he was cruising around the neighborhood and he replied, “I just went around the block once. Would you consider that cruising?” After a few questions by the officer as to what he was doing and where he…