State v. Kyles

This is an appeal by the state from an order of the circuit court suppressing cocaine seized in a warrantless search of defendant Kenneth Ray Kyles's automobile. See A.R.Crim.P.Temp. 14. This ruling was pursuant to Kyles's motion to suppress which had been filed on March 21, 1989, after Kyles's indictment for trafficking on March 13, 1989. The hearing on this motion was held on February 28, 1990, and the court ruled on March 2, 1990.

The prosecution's evidence at the suppression hearing was as follows: Around 1:30 a.m., on October 26, 1988, Kyles was stopped by State Trooper William Eller on…