Cook v. State

Clark, Judge.

Via immediate review certificate, defendant has appealed from the denial of his motion to suppress. This motion is aimed at a coin collection which was in defendant’s possession during his efforts to make a sale to a coin collector when seized by police. Both the seizure and arrest were based upon a report made to the authorities by a well-meaning citizen whose suspicions were aroused by his observations. The seizure and accompanying arrest were made without warrants and without knowledge at that time that the collection had been stolen from an Alabama numismatist. Following a…