State v. Stewart

Beasley, Judge.

The State appeals the grant of defendants’ motion to suppress evidence seized in a search of rented warehouse space. Defendants Tom and Brenda Stewart were indicted for the February 9, 1985 arson of their business premises in Bogart. OCGA § 16-7-60 (a) (3). In the spring of that year Tom, who was a friend of Garnett Root, approached him about renting storage space in a mini-warehouse in Root’s name. Root agreed to do so and sent an employee to the warehouse to apply for and pay rental on a space. Thereafter, Stewart gave Root the money to apply to the rental on the…