Hatcher v. State

In 1913 Chief Judge Benjamin Hill of this court observed, "It is not true that in the effort to detect crime and to punish the criminal, 'the end justifies the means.’ This is especially not true when the means adopted are violative of the very essence of constitutional free government.” Underwood v. State, 13 Ga. App. 206, 213 (78 SE 1103).1 Similarly, in the words of Justice *758Frankfurter speaking for the Supreme Court of the United States in Wolf v. Colorado, 338 U. S. 25, 27 (69 SC 1359, 93 LE 1782): "The security of one’s privacy against arbitrary instrusion by the police — which is at the…