State v. Davis

ARNOLD, Judge.

During the hearing on defendant’s motion to suppress, the following evidence was presented: Prior to 17 August 1982 the Winston-Salem Police Department was investigating several armed robberies that had occurred in the eastern part of the city. Around noon on 17 August Detective Branscome contacted two individuals who lived in the area and questioned them about the robberies. They informed Branscome that the defendant Rodney Davis had told them about robbing people and placing them in the trunk of a vehicle. They also mentioned the robbery of an elderly man at a bus station.

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