Stanford v. Texas

On December 27, 1963, several Texas law-enforcement officers presented' themselves at the petitioner’s San Antonio home for the purpose of searching it under authority of a. warrant issued by a local magistrate. By the time they had finished, five hours later, they had seized some 2,000 of the petitioner’s books, pamphlets, and papers. The question presented by this case is whether the search and seizure were constitutionally valid.

The warrant was issued under § 9 of Art. 6889-3A of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas. That Article, enacted in 1955 and known as the Suppression Act, is a…