McElroy v. State

The appellant, Victoria Eugenia McElroy, was indicted for the offense of possession of a controlled substance, diazepam, in violation of § 20-2-70, Code of Alabama 1975. After McElroy waived a trial by jury and requested that the question of her guilt or innocence be determined from the evidence taken during the prior suppression hearing, the trial court found her guilty as charged and sentenced her to imprisonment for a term of two years and fined her two hundred dollars.

This appeal presents the sole question of whether the trial court erred in overruling McElroy's motion to suppress…