Legal Opinion
State v. Vela
Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee
Decided December 16, 1982PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
TATUM, Judge.
This is an interlocutory appeal by the State, pursuant to Rule 9, T.R.A.P., from a judgment granting a pretrial motion to suppress. The defendants were under indictment for possessing marijuana with intent to sell. The offenses were alleged to have occurred between September 4 and September 6,1980. Marijuana was seized by police officers pursuant to a search warrant issued September 6, 1980 by a City Judge in Memphis, upon the joint affidavit of Sgt. Dave Jones and Sgt. Frank Hester of the Memphis Police Department. The trial judge held that the facts alleged in the…
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- Sibron v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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3Cited by2 opinions
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