Schultz v. State

ON REHEARING

This Court originally reversed defendant's conviction for possession of marijuana, finding that the evidence introduced at trial was the product of an illegal seizure. We held that Dallas County Sheriff's deputies Wayne Odom and Dale Maddox did not have adequate grounds for an investigatory stop of defendant's vehicle based solely on their testimony of having seen the headlights of a car moving slowly down a dirt road separating two cotton fields at 10:30 p.m. Since the initial stopping of the vehicle was unreasonable, the officers had no authority to seize a manila folder, filled…