Manley v. Commonwealth

*147Melvin Lloyd Manley, defendant, was convicted by the court of possession of marijuana, a narcotic drug, in violation of § 54-488, Code of 1950, 1967 Rep. Vol.,1 and sentenced to confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of four years and fined $500. We granted defendant a writ of error.

At the commencement of the trial in the court below the defendant, by counsel, moved the court to suppress the evidence of the marijuana seized on the grounds that the affidavit upon which the search warrant was issued was based on hearsay information;2 that the affidavit did not state sufficient facts…