State v. Johnson

OPINION

GARFF, Judge:

Defendant, Karen Marie Johnson, appeals the trial court’s denial of her motion to suppress and her conviction for possession of a controlled substance.1 We affirm.

On November 3, 1986, Deputy Sheriff Stroud stopped a vehicle for having a faulty brake light. Defendant was a passenger in that vehicle. At the suppression hearing, Stroud testified that prior to stopping the vehicle, he ran a check on the license plate and obtained the name of the registered owner. He then approached the stopped vehicle and asked the driver for her license. The name on the license was not the…