Murphy v. State

ROBERTSON, Justice.

The Appellant, Merle Murphy, was found guilty of possession of intoxicating beer in the Circuit Court of Lee County, Mississippi, Lee County being a dry county. Murphy appealed to this Court from that judgment.

The affidavit for a search warrant and the search warrant itself were on printed forms. No facts or circumstances whatsoever were stated in the affidavit, upon which a disinterested and impartial magistrate could make up his own mind and form his own opinion as to whether probable cause existed for the issuance of the search warrant. There was not even a space…