Wilkerson v. State

ROBERT P. SMITH, Jr., Acting Chief Judge.

Appealing from a judgment and sentence for grand theft of a motel room television set, entered on a plea of nolo contendere reserving an appeal on suppression issues, Wilkerson urges that his Fourth Amendment rights were violated. At 2:30 in the morning officers stopped the automobile in which Wilkerson was a passenger because of a missing headlight. While one officer asked the driver for his license, the other approached on the passenger’s side and observed in the back seat a television set with the black number 145 on the top. Associating the…