State v. Hamlin

ARNOLD, Judge.

The State contends that the trial court erroneously suppressed evidence obtained under the search warrant. The question presented by this appeal is whether the affidavit supplied sufficient facts and circumstances from which a magistrate could find probable cause to issue a search warrant. We hold that it did.

*606In reviewing the magistrate’s determination of probable cause, we are limited in the scope of our examination by G.S. 15A-245(a). Since we are unable to find in the record other facts recorded contemporaneously with the affidavit, our examination is confined to the…