State v. Dixon

MOORE, Chief Justice.

Defendant Will Dixon appeals his convictions for armed robberies of nine tavern patrons. He asserts the State failed to establish good cause justifying an investigatory stop of his automobile and that the police exceeded the scope of search constitutionally permissible incident to an investigatory stop and arrest. We affirm.

Approximately 1:30 a. m., Friday, October 11, 1974, two Davenport police officers were cruising on West Locust Street when they observed a black and white Cadillac automobile containing three or four black males at the intersection of Locust and…