State v. Armstrong

PARKER, Judge.

The sole question presented concerns the validity of the search warrant. In apt time defendant challenged the validity of the search warrant under which the officers searched his trailer and moved to suppress the evidence obtained as a result of the search. The search was made under circumstances which required a search warrant, and unless the warrant was valid, the search was illegal and evidence obtained as a result thereof should have been suppressed. G.S. 15A-974; Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643, 6 L.Ed. 2d 1081, 81 S.Ct. 1684 (1961). An “unlawful search is not made lawful…