State v. Voyles

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for 18 counts of second-degree animal neglect (Counts 2 to 19) and one count of felon in possession of a firearm (Count 1). Defendant first assigns error to the trial court’s denial of her motion to suppress evidence obtained following the state’s warrantless search and subsequent seizure of four horses that were boarded on third parties’ properties. This assignment solely relates to a search and seizure of evidence that related to the conviction on four of the 18 counts of second-degree animal neglect (Counts 15 to 18). We write to address only the…