State v. Moore

In this criminal case the indictment by its four separate counts charged Moore with illegally (1) receiving, (2) possessing, (3) possessing for present or future sale, whiskey, and (4) personally transporting more than one gallon of whiskey in Maury County.

An order in the technical record recites that both State and defendant waived a jury trial, and that at the conclusion of the State’s evidence the defendant moved the Court “to quash and dismiss the indictment because of an illegal search”. The Court sustained that motion and adjudged “that said indictment is hereby quashed and dismissed”.…