Goines v. State

OPINION

HENRY, Chief Justice.

We granted certiorari 1 in this criminal action to determine whether information obtained from an undisclosed informant, standing alone, formed a sufficient basis of probable cause to justify a warrantless arrest. A secondary issue is whether petitioner waived his right to assert this error by failing to move to suppress the evidence.

Petitioner was convicted of possessing heroin, sentenced to serve eleven months and twenty-nine days in the Washington County Jail, and fined $500.00. The Court of Criminal Appeals, treating the issue presented as being “the refusal of…