State v. Henry

Tom Glaze, Justice.

This case involves the state’s petition for review of a decision by the Arkansas Court of Appeals which reversed the trial court’s ruling, denying the respondent’s motion to suppress marijuana evidence obtained from an arrest and subsequent vehicular search conducted by two Game and Fish Wildlife officers and three deputy sheriffs. The appellate court, relying on Ark. Code Ann. § 12-9-108(a)(1987), and the cases of Mitchell v. State, 298 Ark. 536, 769 S.W.2d 18 (1989), and Grable v. State, 298 Ark. 489, 769 S.W.2d 9 (1989), held the contraband should have been suppressed…