Rhodes v. State

1. Where, as here, the defendant is living on premises in a field, the closest houses being 200 feet in one direction and 300 feet in another, separated by fences, and where the yard immediately contiguous to the house is kept clean, the children of the family playing therein, and the defendant’s truck being parked on many occasions at approximately the point in question, which is 17 feet from the comer of the house in the driveway, evidence of police officers that at this point there was a little pile of chicken feathers (the surrounding area being “clean as the floor”), under which was an…