Buckley v. Beaulieu
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions and motion by plaintiff. Action of trespass quare clausum for an alleged breaking and entering of the plaintiff’s dwelling house in Lewiston.
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On exceptions and motion by plaintiff. Action of trespass quare clausum for an alleged breaking and entering of the plaintiff’s dwelling house in Lewiston. The defendants were deputy enforcement commissioners duly appointed under the provisions of chapter 92, Public Laws, 1905, known as the "Sturgis Law,” and at the time of alleged trespass, by virtue of a warrant therefor duly issued by the Municipal Court of Lewiston, were engaged in searching the plaintiff’s dwelling house for intoxicating liquors alleged to be concealed therein. The plaintiff is a resident of New York City and the…
1Opinion of the CourtEmery, C. J.
The decisive question in this case is whether the defendants in their execution of a warrant to search the plaintiffs dwelling house for intoxicating liquors went so far as to violate the constitutional guaranty that "the people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers and possessions from all unreasonable searches and seizures.” This court in State v. Guthrie, 90 Maine, 448, in considering the duty of an officer entrusted with a search warrant used the following language, viz: "It is a sharp and heavy police weapon to be used most carefully lest it wound the security or liberty of…
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