Quilice v. State

I cannot agree with the majority opinion that the information supplied by the undisclosed informant constituted sufficient facts upon which a neutral and detached magistrate could base a conclusion that probable cause to search existed.

At the pre-trial hearing on appellant’s motion to suppress, San Antonio police officer Clyde Gentle testified that he received a telephone call at approximately 10:30 a.m. on August 24, 1977. The call was from an informant, who was never identified by name but from whom Gentle testified he had received information several times in the past which had proven to…