Commonwealth v. Coffey

Opinion by

Jacobs, J.,

This is an appeal from appellant’s conviction on several charges of possessing and dealing in illegal drugs. Several issues are raised which we find to be without merit, and we affirm the conviction.

The first issue we will consider is whether the lower court should have suppressed certain evidence seized by police, because the search warrant they used was not based on probable cause. “Probable cause requires proof of facts and circumstances as would excite an honest belief in a reasonable mind, acting on all the facts and circumstances within knowledge of the magistrate,…