State v. Davis

WISE, Judge.

Ed Davis was arrested and charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance (crack cocaine), a violation of § 13A-12-212(a)(l), Aa.Code 1975. Davis filed a pretrial motion to suppress the evidence seized as the result of an investigatory stop, namely, a plastic bag containing what was later determined to be crack cocaine. Following an evidentiary hearing, the trial court granted Davis’s motion, stating that the State had failed to establish the reliability of the informant or the basis for the informant’s knowledge and had not corroborated the information supplied by the…