Welchance v. State

Plaintiff, in error has appealed to this court from a conviction for possessing liquor, the jury imposing a fine of $150‘, to which the trial court added a workhouse sentence of four months.

Two officers, upon searching the dwelling of plaintiff in error, found seventy-six half-gallon jars of whisky. The testimony of these officers was excepted to upon the ground that the evidence was obtained by an unlawful search and seizure. It is insisted that the affidavit upon which the search warrant was issued failed to state facts that would constitute probable cause for the issuance of the warrant.…