Hudspeth v. State

H."DuB" ARNOLD, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from the trial court’s denial of appellant’s motion to suppress hidden-camera videotape evidence and finding such to be permitted as an “open-field” search. We affirm the trial court.

On July 18, 2000, Mike Moffet, a Criminal Investigator for the Marion County Sheriff s Office, received information from an Arkansas State Police Sergeant that a possible methamphetamine laboratory was located on property adjoining that of Mr. Dennis Hudspeth, appellant’s brother. The property identified is an undeveloped ten-acre tract, abutting a twenty-acre…