Opinion ID: 1861466
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Was it unloaded?

Text: A. No.  Q. Was it ready to fire?  A. Yes.  Q. What did you do after you found the weapon?  A. The weapon, when I found it, had the hammer cocked. Simply by depressing the trigger it would have fired so I dropped the clip out and racked the chamber. There was a live round in the chamber. In denying the motion, the trial judge said in part:    it would appear that the evidence in this case clearly warrants the police action. He was acting on information which made him suspicious of the vehicle being parked at the place that it was, with the companion that the defendant had with him. This, combined with the defendant's own motions in apparently trying to hide something, caused the officer very properly to take the steps he did to search the vehicle and to disarm the defendant. The Court of Appeals affirmed. [5]