Polite v. State

1. Where, as here, one accused of the offense of maintaining a device for the hazarding of money known as bolita is seen talking to two persons by certain officers of the law, and where the accused is then called over by the officers and his person searched, without a search warrant and before his arrest, and bolita books, tickets and change are found in his pockets, the evidence so obtained by the illegal and unauthorized search of his person is admissible against him, and does not violate the rights guaranteed by the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Georgia. Calhoun v.…