Lane v. Commonwealth

MOREMEN, Judge.

Appellant, Cecil Lane, was arrested in Boyd County by a state trooper for improper passing in an automobile on a public highway. He had no operator’s license. The car was registered in his wife’s name. The trooper, after arrest, searched his person and placed him in a police cruiser which was parked close to Lane’s car. The officer called police barracks and requested a wrecker. He conversed with Lane for a few minutes and then returned to Lane’s car and searched it. He found about seven cases of whiskey in the trunk of the car. All of this occurred in dry local option…