Legal Opinion

Hedges v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma

Decided January 13, 1954No. A-11878Published

1Opinion of the Court

JONES, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction sustained by the defendant William H. Hedges in the Court of Common Pleas of Oklahoma County for the unlawful possession of whiskey.

The sole issue on appeal is whether the trial court committed error in overruling the motion to suppress evidence presented by the accused prior to the trial.

The basis for the motion to suppress was the contention that the search warrant did not describe the premises upon which the whiskey was found and further that it was a blanket search warrant.

The affidavit for the search warrant and the search warrant itself…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Pitzer v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1940
  2. Linthicum v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1939
  3. Myer v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1926
  4. Kutz v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1947
  5. Dawson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1949

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