State v. Belcher

Quillian, Chief Judge.

The state appeals the grant of a motion to suppress evidence obtained by the use of a search warrant. Held:

The search warrant was issued by a juvenile court judge, not in the course of juvenile proceedings and when no juvenile was involved in the search. The trial judge ruled that a juvenile court judge is not authorized to sign a search warrant for an adult, unless and until the adult is brought before the juvenile court in the course of a proceeding instituted under the juvenile court code.

Code Ann. § 27-303 (Ga. L. 1966, pp. 567,568) provides that any “judicial…