Love v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, Judge.
For the reason that the warrantless seizure of drugs from the appellant’s automobile and motel room was unreasonable as a matter of law, it was error to deny a motion to suppress the seized evidence, and the judgment of conviction and sentence based on that evidence must be reversed.
Investigator Matthews of the Fulton County district attorney’s office received certain information from a confidential informant over a several day period in September, 1976. Basically, the informant relayed information about two men, boasting about having *729robbed a drug salesman in Columbus, Ga., and…
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