Johnson v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Appellant in this case left his pickup truck standing in the right-hand traffic lane of a Macon thoroughfare during afternoon rush hour while he conversed with a friend in the latter’s front yard. An officer proceeding on routine patrol in the opposite direction observed the truck and noted that traffic was having to change lanes in order to pass it; he decided, however, not to investigate it or report it until completion of his current round, but to check the site on his return patrol. Apparently only minutes after this occurrence, another officer routinely patrolling…