State v. Tindell

GIVAN, Chief Justice.

The trial judge correctly treated a motion to dismiss as a motion to suppress evidence and sustained said motion. The State appeals. We reverse the trial court.

The record shows the following: After stopping a pickup truck displaying a paper registration in the back window and an expired license plate, a police officer learned that the vehicle had just been purchased from the appellee’s business, Tin-dell’s Auto Sales. The certificate of title was not notarized nor did it bear the name of a purchaser. The officer went to Tin-dell’s Auto Sales, where he advised the salesman…