Webb v. State

After appellant Melvin Webb's motion to suppress was denied, he pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine in violation of the Alabama Uniform Controlled Substances Act, reserving by agreement the issue of the suppression ruling. He received a two-year sentence, suspended, with two years of supervised probation. On appeal he argues that the trial court erred in not granting his motion to suppress, upon the following facts.

About noon, a Montgomery police officer was writing out a traffic citation in a parking lot. The appellant was walking across this parking lot and when the two looked at each…