State v. Grindstaff

HEDRICK, Chief Judge.

We note at the outset that defendant’s notice of appeal was not timely given. The State has not addressed this issue, however, and we have elected to treat this appeal as a petition for a writ of certiorari and allow the same in order to pass on the merits of defendant’s appeal.

Defendant first assigns error to the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress on the following grounds: 1) the warrantless search was not based on any exigent circumstances; 2) defendant, as a condition of an earlier probation, had consented to war-rantless searches of his person or premises…