Opinion ID: 1848277
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Open fields of Dombrowski farm

Text: After the appellant, through his attorney,`informed the Washington county authorities that he believed there was a body in the picnic area of the north end of his brother's farm, the authorities went to this location where they found McKinney's dead body. Thereafter, the bloody 1960 Dodge was discovered on the farm, located about half a block from the farmhouse. We do not reach the question of whether the appellant had proper standing to move to suppress the evidence because no search warrant was required to search the open fields on the Dombrowski farm. [15] We need not consider the validity of any search of the Dombrowski farm buildings since no evidence seized there pursuant to the search warrant issued on September 13th by Hon. HAZEN W. McEssY was offered or admitted at the trial. In summary, this court concludes that the disputed items, introduced as evidence after the seizures of the items`in the check of the trunk of the 1967 Thunderbird made by Officer Weiss, the inspection of the 1960 Dodge by crime lab officer Cleon Mauer, and the inspection of the fields of the Dombrowski farm, were all produced without resort to any search in the`constitutional sense.