Brooks v. State

Banke, Judge.

The defendant appeals his convictions for carrying a concealed weapon, criminal use of an article with an altered identification mark, and simple assault. His primary contention is that evidence discovered during an illegal detention by the arresting officer was improperly introduced against him.

At approximately ten o’clock in the morning on February 24, 1976, an Atlanta police officer spotted the defendant looking into the window of a Gremlin automobile in a shopping center parking lot. The officer testified that the defendant looked up, saw him, immediately went to a nearby car…