Holt v. State

The defendant’s contentions can be grouped into five separate categories:

1. Unlawful Search and Seizure.

The defendant urges that her constitutional rights were infringed upon when the officers gained admittance to the home at the invitation of her husband and also when they searched the premises without a search warrant.

The husband’s act of admitting the officers was consistent with his status. He had at least equal prerogatives on the premises and had authority to admit others to his home. We do not have to go as far as the court did in United States v. Sferas (7th Cir. 1954), 210 Fed. (2d)…