Cruse v. State

OPINION

CONNOR, Justice.

Appellant Tim Michael Cruse appeals from the judgment and commitment of the superior court finding him guilty of robbery.1 The issue presented by this appeal is whether the trial court erred in denying appellant’s motion to suppress evidence seized, pursuant to a warrant, from his automobile trunk when the trunk had previously been searched without a warrant.

On September 30,1976, Stephan Pittman, field man at the Sundowner Drive-in Theater in Anchorage, had an altercation with three young men in a white car who were disturbing other patrons. Pittman got his supervisor’s…