Williams v. State

The principal question in this case is whether a lawful entry under and by authority of a search warrant for intoxicating liquor precludes a legal seizure of recognized stolen property found on the premises searched, and whether evidence of this stolen property obtained by means of this search and seizure is admissible against appellant, who was charged with theft of it.

Appellant, Monroe Williams, was convicted in the Circuit Court of Smith County of grand larceny, for the theft of two butane gas heaters and one twenty-five gallon butane gas bottle belonging to named trustees of the Mt. Zion…