Morris v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant Morris appeals his conviction of the offenses of trafficking in cocaine and of giving a false name to a law enforcement officer. Held:

This drug case involves an airport arrest of an in-transit airline passenger and the subsequent search of his baggage. The three enumerations of error complain of the denial of defendant’s motion to suppress the contraband seized in the search of the baggage.

After receiving information that an individual traveling on a one-way cash ticket from a drug source city (Los Angeles) would be changing airplanes at the Atlanta…