Veal v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Ohiee Justice Sampson—

Reversing.

Appellant, Veal, is a colored man living with his wife at his home in a colored district of Winchester. On January 2, 1923, the chief of police and tw'o other policemen of-the city of. Winchester called at his house at' nighttime when he (Veal) was away from home, and asked his wife, who came to the door, if Lawrence Green, a colored man from Ohio, was in the house, and upon being told by the wife that he was not in the house the chief of police asked permission to enter the house and search for Green. This she readily consented for them…