State v. Teltser

WHICHARD, Judge.

I

The sole issue is whether the court erred in denying defendant’s motion to suppress evidence obtained from a warrantless search of a suitcase. We find no error.

II

Evidence at the hearing on the motion to suppress showed the following:

Defendant and his brother, students in Florida, while travel-ling through Robeson County en route to their mother’s house in New Jersey, had an automobile accident. The brother went to the hospital for treatment of injuries sustained in the accident. Defendant then took a suitcase from the trunk of the automobile, ran across the highway, jumped a…