The People v. Williams

This is an interlocutory appeal, taken by the People, from an order of the criminal court of Cook County quashing a search warrant issued by a judge of the circuit court of Cook County, and suppressing the evidence seized under the warrant. The appeal is authorized by statute, (111. Rev. Stat. 1961, chap. 38, par. 747,) and comes directly to this court because a constitutional question is involved.

Defendants are charged with the operation of a handbook and the keeping of a gaming house. Upon their motion, the trial judge to whom the case was assigned for trial, quashed the search warrant on…