Singleton v. United States

ROSE, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in error, defendant below, and so styled here, was convicted of having a second time unlawfully *131possessed intoxicating liquor. One Gosnell, a federal prohibition agent, went before a magistrate of the state of South Carolina and made an affidavit upon which, in assumed accordance with state law, a warrant was issued to one Bell, a state constable, commanding him to search defendant’s premises for contraband intoxicating liquor. Gosnell and two other federal prohibition agents accompanied the constable to the defendant’s home, aided in the search, and found…