State v. Blumenstein

Question number 1 reads as follows:

“Was the search warrant void because the justice did not at the time he examined the witness under oath reduce the testimony to writing, in view of the statement of your honorable court in the Baltes Case, namely, ‘The procedure indicated and which should be followed in the issuance of search warrants is that the magistrate should examine under oath the applicant for the search warrant and his-witnesses and should reduce their sworn testimony to writing, or at least so much thereof as he relied upon in issuing the warrant, and then if he finds from all the…