Hicks v. State

MANN, Chief Judge.

The search warrant attacked on this appeal is based upon an affidavit stating that a Tampa Police Officer had good reason to believe that in a certain mobile home of “aluminimum” (sic) construction, specifically identified and located, there were narcotics. The affiant’s reasons for his belief were stated to be:

“That in his capacity as a detective of the Tampa Police Department, he has had occasion to employ the use of a confidential informant whose reliability has been established by the fact that in the past two years he has supplied information which upon investigation…