Kilpatrick v. State

McCORD, Judge.

This is an appeal from the trial court’s order withholding adjudication of appellants’ guilt and placing them on probation after their pleas of nolo contendere to possession of narcotic paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance. The pleas preserved the appellants’ right to appeal the trial court’s denial of their motion to suppress, which the parties stipulated was dispositive of the case. We reverse.

At the motion hearing, police officer Ron Steverson testified that on August 20, 1980, he received a confidential tip that appellants had marijuana plants growing at…