Shipley v. State

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• ordinary observation does not require a careful, thorough, or detailed examination from every conceivable vantage point
• “[A] weapon is concealed if it is so situated as not to be discernible by ordinary observation . . . .”
• “[A]bsolute invisibility is not required, since ordinary observation does not extend to a search unusually careful, thorough or detailed, made because of suspicion that contraband which is not visible by ordinary observation may in actuality be present.”
• dirk protruding from under driver's seat of defendant's automobile
• dirk protruding from under driver's seat of defendant's automobile
• “[A] weapon is concealed if it is so situated as not to be discernible by ordinary observation by those near enough to see it if it were not concealed who would come into contact with the possessor in the usual associations of life . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).