Munson v. Commonwealth ex rel. Owenton

Opinion op the Court by

Chief .Justice Sampson

Affirming.

A search warrant was sued out in the Owenton police court to search the premises of one Pack Munson, who lived in that town. Late at night the officers, armed with the warrant, went to the residence of Munson for the purpose of searching for whiskey and of arresting persons found there in the unlawful possession of whiskey. When the chief of police knocked upon the- front door of the Munson home a commotion was heard in the house; a young lady came to the door and said she would inform her father, then in bed, that the marshal was there;…