Addington v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke

Reversing.

Appellant was convicted of illegally possessing liquor, upon the evidence of officers who made a search of his residence. He was not in the county at the time, hut his servants were in charge of his house. A keg of whiskey was found in the house, but failing to prove that they had a valid, or .in fact any search warrant, this evidence whs excluded from the- jury, as was proper under many decisions of this court.

The only evidence of guilt not obtained under or by means of the search of defendant’s premises was that two negroes came out of his…