Commonwealth v. Baldwin

JACOBS, President Judge:

This Commonwealth appeal 1 arises from an order of the court below suppressing evidence seized pursuant to a search warrant executed in the nighttime, and granting the defendants a new trial. The sole issue for our consideration is whether the trial court erred in its determination that no reasonable cause existed to justify the night search. For the reasons that follow, we hold that it did, and therefore reverse the order entered below.

On January 31, 1976, John Thompson, an attorney, telephoned the Pennsylvania State Police and informed Trooper George Taylor that, by…