Banks v. State

FARMER, Judge.

The manager of a motel heard a disturbance in one of the rooms under his charge and summoned the police. They responded and knocked on the door of the room. When Banks opened the door, one of the officers looked past him into the room and saw a woman sitting on the bed. Only the light from a nearby bathroom illuminated the room. Straddling the doorway for “safety purposes”, the officer scanned the interior and spied two cans just beside the bed about 8 to 15 feet inside the room.

At a motion to suppress hearing later, the officer testified that he immediately thought the cans…