State v. Alonso

Pope, Judge.

This is an appeal by the State of Georgia from an order sustaining the defendant’s motion to suppress a search warrant. The warrant was secured by information from a confidential informant who had seen three men and one woman behind the Sky City Department Store in Elberton, Georgia at 4:00 a.m. on the morning of April 7,1980. Later that morning it was discovered that the Sky City Department Store had been burglarized by someone who had entered through the roof and had taken a large quantity of money and various merchandise from the store.

After spotting the four people behind the…