United States v. James McClellan Thompson

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

On November 3, 1977, the defendant allegedly stole and slaughtered a “bull cow” from a neighbor’s pasture in rural Bath County in the hills of eastern Kentucky. The next day his girl friend, with whom he had been living, told an officer of the Kentucky state police about the crime and also told the officer that the defendant kept an illegal sawed-off shotgun at his house trailer. A warrant was issued authorizing a search of the house trailer for the cow and the firearm. The girl friend let the officers into the trailer pursuant to the warrant where they found the…