Jenkins v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant urges again that the testimony that whisky was found in his car was wrongfully received because the officers searched without a warrant when they had time to have secured one. The point is decided against appellant in Woodson v. State, 13 S. W. (2d) 102. In Sec. 66, Cornelius on Search and Seizure, 2d Ed., it is stated that the right to search a standing automobile is controlled by the same general principles of law which apply to the search of other places. We quote the following; “The officer must have probable causé to believe the law is…