Crawford v. United States

Police officers of the city of Louisville procured a search warrant from a justice of the peace and with it “raided” Crawford’s premises. They searched his house and found nothing. In the cellar of a garage building on the same lot, 75 feet away, finding a hidden trap-door in the floor, they opened it and in a subeellar found a distilling outfit and a large quantity of intoxicating liquor and the materials for its manufacture. In this prosecution, later brought in the court below for the unlawful possession of this liquor, the only substantial question was whether the search and seizure were…