State v. Lofton

VAUGHN, Judge.

Prior to trial, defendant made a motion to suppress the evidence seized in a search of her apartment pursuant to a search warrant. Defendant claims that the warrant was invalid because there was no confidential informant as alleged in the affidavit and that the information contained in the affidavit resulted from an illegal search of defendant’s premises.

Officer Johnson testified on voir dire that about 7:00 p.m. on 27 June 1978, he met with a confidential informer who told him that he had been at defendant’s apartment a couple of days before and had seen about thirty marijuana…