State v. Massey

Defendant was convicted of first degree manslaughter for the death of the eight-year-old daughter of his female companion. He assigns as error the denial of his motion to suppress fruits of a search pursuant to warrant for the reason that the warrant did not describe with sufficient particularity the things to be seized.

In the affidavit accompanying the warrant, the district attorney of Coos County alleged that the child had been absent from school for the previous 18 days, that when last seen by school personnel her eyes had been blackened and she bore signs of severe bruising and swelling,…