Bradford v. State

There was a conviction below of possessing liquor, with a fine of $350' and workhouse sentence of sis months: Pour half pints were found by an officer at one place in Bradford’s home and a gallon in another. The officer was armed with a search warrant, the legality of which is challenged on the ground only that it was signed “T. J. Pearson, Justice of the Peace,” when said Pearson was not a justice of the peace. It appears from the bill of exceptions that objection was duly made to the testimony of the officer, “because the search warrant under which he acted was nugatory and void, because…