Kirkley v. United States

WOODS, Circuit Judge.

The defendant, Charlie Kirkley, was convicted of having in his possession and transporting intoxicating liquor, and of having in his possession property used in the manufacture of intoxicating liquor. The evidence against him was the finding of a bottle of whisky in his house and a still about 400 yards off by the sheriff of Chesterfield county, in the execution of a search warrant issued by a magistrate. The warrant was not produced, but the evidence tended to show that the affidavit on which it was issued did not set forth “the sources of information, the facts and…