Charles Douglas Hawkins, Appellant v. the State of Texas, Appellee

Summary

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals held that the police officers unlawfully stopped Charles Hawkins without specific and articulable facts, and that his discarding of a paper bag containing heroin and cocaine was not a voluntary abandonment independent of that illegal stop. Consequently, the evidence was suppressed, the trial court's denial of the motion to suppress was reversed, and the case was remanded for further proceedings.