Manzione v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was indicted for violating Georgia’s Controlled Substances Act (possession of more than one ounce of marijuana with in tent to distribute). Defendant subsequently filed a motion to suppress. A hearing was conducted on this motion and the evidence revealed the following:

Between 6:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on April 1, 1988, Officer Fletcher Mattox of the Clarke County Police Department was on duty at the police station when he received three successive telephone calls from a man who identified himself as an employee of “ ‘the Pro Shop’ ” at Georgia Square Mall.…