State v. White

OPINION

SCHROEDER, Presiding Judge.

The dispositive issue in this case is whether circumstances surrounding an informant’s tip received by police officers provided probable cause to stop the vehicle in which appellant was riding and to search the occupants. We hold that there was not sufficient cause to justify the stop and therefore reverse.

On February 20, 1978, Yuma police officers received a tip from an informant, whom, they testified, had given reliable information in the past. The sum and substance of the tip was that the appellant and one Sheila Lane were “riding around Yuma” in Lane’s…