Hawley v. State

HAWKINS, Judge. —

Appellant was charged by complaint and information with searching the persons and personal possessions of Ike Chaffin and Lake Tankersley without having a search warrant. Upon conviction punishment was assessed at confinement in the county jail for one day.

Prosecution was under an Act passed by the Thirty-ninth Legislature (Chap. 149, p. 357), and brought forward in the 1925 Revised Code of Criminal Procedure, as Arts 4a and 4b, which read as follows:

“It shall be unlawful for any person or peace officer, or State ranger, to search the private residence, actual place of…