Mitchell v. State

Pannell, Judge.

The defendant was tried and convicted of the offense of sodomy. His motion for new trial was overruled and he appealed. Held:

1. Where, “as here, the police have reasonable cause to believe that public toilet stalls are being used in the commission of crime, and when, as here, they confine their activities to the times when such crimes are most likely to occur, they are entitled to institute clandestine surveillance, even though they do not have probable cause to believe that the particular persons whom they may thus catch in flagrante delicto have committed or will commit the…