Wright v. City of Montgomery

On the night of October 30, 1983, Officer Tim Collins of the Montgomery Police Department was driving south on Zelda Road in Montgomery. Collins observed a car, traveling in the opposite direction, come around a curve and then cross the center line into the lane in which Collins was traveling. After the car passed Collins, he turned around and stopped this vehicle.

When the car pulled over, Collins asked the appellant, the driver of the car, for his driver's license. The appellant had trouble finding the license and Collins asked him to get out of the car. Collins then noticed an odor of…