Williams v. Commonwealth

PALMORE, Justice.

The question on this appeal concerns the legality of a search and seizure. The place searched was an automobile in which the appellant and three other persons had been *892traveling when arrested on the previous evening, and the thing found and seized was a quantity of marked currency stolen in the course of an armed robbery shortly before the arrest.

At 10:05 P.M. on October 26, 1971, Milton Baker, a state trooper, received a radio report in his police cruiser that a supermarket in London had been held up and robbed. He went to the scene of the crime and there received from a…