Johnston v. State

DeCARLO, Judge.

Transporting; one year, one day.

I

Appellant first contends there was no probable cause basis for the warrantless search of his truck on Highway 72 in Lauderdale County.

Probable cause has been defined in Carroll v. United States, 267 U.S. 132, 45 S. Ct. 280, 69 L.Ed. 543, as “facts and circum'means less than evidence which would jusstances within their [the officers’] knowl edge and of which they had reasonably trustworthy information [are] sufficient in themselves to warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief that” an offense has been or is being committed. “And this tify…