State Ex Rel. Brown v. District Court

The affidavit filed in connection with this application for a writ of prohibition will be referred to as the complaint, and the partes designated as plaintiffs and defendants.

On July 2, 1924, at Victor, Ravalli county, E. T. Lockridge, sheriff of said county, and William Grimes, his deputy, without a search-warrant, searched a Dodge automobile discovered in possession of the plaintiffs, which they had driven from Hamilton, in said county, and found therein, amongst other articles, twenty gallons of whisky in three five-gallon crock demijohns and on.e five-gallon barrel. Having discovered this…