Fall v. United States

RUDKIN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction under tbe National Prohibition Act (27 USCA). The principal error assigned challenges the sufficiency of a search warrant and the legality of a search and seizure made thereunder. The search warrant described the place to be searched as “a ranch with small building used for residence, located about 5 miles in a westerly direction from the town of Silver Bow, Montana.” The question at once arises whether such a description satisfies the requirement of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of *72the United States that the…