Boswell v. State

At 11 o’clock on the night of the 29th of April, 1920, six officers went to the home of the defendant, a farmer, and called him from his bed to the door, where they told him that they had come to search his premises for a whisky still. The defendant replied, “All right; help yourselves.” These officers had no search warrant and no warrant for the arrest of the defendant. They proceeded to search the premises and found a barrel of fermented grain and sugar (or some sweet substance) near a hog lot, and another barrel half full of the same kind of mixture in an outhouse. The search was continued…