Wallace v. State

It appears from the evidence that the plaintiff in error was a bachelor and that his father and brother-in-law lived with him; that on the 11th day of December, the sheriff and deputies went to his place and in a search found three half-gallon jars of whisky hidden in an out-house. They arrested the plaintiff in error and he was tried on the 6th day of February, following. In the course of the trial objection was made to the admission of the whisky in evidence, for the reason that it had been taken without a search warrant. The sheriff was then asked if he had a search warrant, and, over…