Davis v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

1. The motion to suppress evidence of automobile parts stripped from a stolen car and lying in plain view in the back of an open truck was properly denied. Smith v. State, 132 Ga. App. 691 (1) (209 SE2d 112). Where the defendant, driving at a fast clip, skidded into the highway in front of the peace officer’s vehicle and immediately thereafter "broadsided” into a side road, the officer was within his rights in attempting to stop the vehicle and in following it when it did not do so. The driver, who is the defendant in this motor vehicle theft case, after about a half…