The PEOPLE v. Aiuppa

This is an interlocutory writ of error sued out by the People from an order of the criminal court of Cook County which quashed a search warrant and suppressed certain evidence. Ill. Rev. Stat. 1961, chap. 38, par. 747.

The defendants were indicted for gambling and keeping a gambling place. Before the trial they moved to suppress certain evidence that had been seized under a search warrant, and to quash the warrant. The warrant stated that it was issued upon the sworn complaint of David Smiley that he had reasonable grounds to believe that gaming apparatus and implements were concealed, kept…