State v. Braxton

The judgment of the Appellate Division is reversed and the trial court’s order denying the motion to suppress is affirmed for the reasons given in the dissenting opinion in the Appellate Division. 111 N. J. Super. 191, 201 (1970). We add that an inspection of the registration of an automobile includes a check of the serial number on the vehicle itself, here located on the doorpost, for it is a comparison of the number there found with the serial number on the registration certificate which reveals whether the car in hand is in fact the registered car and not another car of similar vintage. It…