Lyttle v. State

Ellington, Judge.

Following a bench trial in the State Court of Cherokee County, the trial court found Rossie Hancock Lyttle guilty of misdemeanor possession of marijuana, OCGA § 16-13-30. On appeal from her judgment of conviction, Lyttle contends that the trial court erred by denying her motion to suppress. For the following reasons, we reverse.

Where, as here, evidence presented at a hearing on a motion to suppress is uncontroverted and there are no questions of credibility, we review the trial court’s application of the law to undisputed facts de novo. Vansant v. State, 264 Ga. 319, 320 (1)…