Scoggins v. State

Smith, Presiding Judge.

We granted the application of Robert Clayton Scoggins for an interlocutory appeal of the trial court’s order denying his motion to suppress. Because the search of Scoggins’s car after he fled from a traffic stop and then attempted to flee on foot was permissible as a search incident to arrest, we affirm on that basis and do not reach the issue of whether an inventory search was properly conducted.

‘Where the evidence on a motion to suppress is uncontroverted and credibility is not an issue, we review the evidence and the application of the law thereto de novo, construing…