Case Name: Ellis EDMOND, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1968-03-18
Citations: 208 So. 2d 135
Docket Number: No. 1350
Parties: Ellis EDMOND, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: WALDEN, C. J., and REED, J., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 208
Pages: 135–135

Head Matter:
Ellis EDMOND, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 1350.
District Court of Appeal of Florida. Fourth District.
March 18, 1968.
Walter N. Colbath, Jr., Public Defender, and John R. Young, Sp. Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Fred T. Gallagher, Asst. Atty. Gen., Vero Beach, for appellee.

Opinion:
BARNS, PAUL D., Associate Judge.
After a defendant has been stopped for the violation of a traffic regulation at 4 A.M. and does not have a driver's permit, and he tells the officer that the car is borrowed from a friend in Miami (over sixty miles away), but only gives his friend's name as "Harry" and the officer observes a crowbar and screwdriver protruding from under the front seat and a radio with store tag on the back seat with the aid of a flashlight shined through the glass windows of the car, he has sufficient probable cause to make a thorough search of the automobile after arrest for the traffic violation and failure to produce a driver's permit. Affirmed on authority of Gispert v. State, Fla.App.1960, 118 So.2d 596.
Affirmed.
WALDEN, C. J., and REED, J., concur.