Long v. State

OPINION

in which MEYERS, PRICE, WOMACK, JOHNSON and HOLCOMB, JJ., joined.

The police officers in this case obtained a warrant to search the rural, gambling business premises of “Train’s” which was explicitly described as a “silver in color passenger train car.” We conclude that this warrant did not authorize the search of appellant’s home, an entirely different and distinct structure — a red caboose— which was located nearby. There are, in fact, two problems with the present search.1 First, there is no descriptive language in this warrant that would authorize the search of appellant’s home as…