Court Opinion

ID: 9676012
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 05:12:13.842841+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:42.568202
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CONCURRING OPINION
MORRISON, Judge.
While I agree to the affirmance of this conviction, my dissent in Korn v. State, supra, requires that I discuss my reasons for so agreeing.
The two officers received information from a police radio dispatch that two men, one tall and slender and the other somewhat shorter and heavier set, were seen carrying a woman’s purse. Within three minutes the same officers saw two men, who fit the exact description which had been given them, one block from where they had reportedly been seen carrying a woman’s purse. The two men were “the only two parties immediately visible on the street at that time”, but no longer had the purse. Upon questioning, the suspects were unable to give an explanation as to their means of support and their identity, and one of them reported that he had been on a week’s drunk. The officers were then, in my judgment, in possession of sufficient information to authorize their arrest on probable cause for vagrancy.