Commonwealth v. Scavincky

Opinion by

Jacobs, J.,

The Commonwealth appeals the order of the lower court suppressing certain evidence seized by the police pursuant to a search warrant which connected appellee, Mary Lou Scavincky, with the operation of a lottery.1 The court below found as a fact that certain alterations were made on the warrant by the police after its submission to the magistrate for execution.2 Accordingly, the lower court ruled that the Commonwealth had failed in its burden to prove probable cause for the search. We conclude that even excluding the alterations from the affidavit of the search warrant,…