Howard v. State

Andrews, Presiding Judge.

Hershel Daniel Howard was found guilty in a bench trial of driving under the influence of alcohol and driving with an open container of alcohol. His sole claim on appeal is that the trial court should have granted his motion to suppress the evidence supporting the guilty verdicts because the police officer who stopped the vehicle he was driving did so without any reasonable basis under the Fourth Amendment. Because we find the officer had a reasonable basis to make an investigatory stop of the vehicle, the trial court correctly denied the motion to suppress.…