State v. Springer

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Magie, J.

Prosecutor seeks by this writ to procure a- re-~ view of the act of a police justice in the city of Camden in' issuing a warrant commonly called a search warrant, upon a complaint made under oath to him.

He alleges various insufficiencies in the complaint and errors and omissions in the warrant.

Proceedings whereby stolen goods may be searched1 for;, and, if found, seized and placed in official custody, have been, known to the criminal law from a very early period. Notwithstanding some doubts expressed by Lord Coke as to. their *354legality (4 Inst.…