Jones v. Pettigrew

FRASER, Justice.

Appellees, on a trial to the jury, recovered judgment against appellants for the amounts of monies taken from appellees by police officers of the City of El Paso in consequence of a raid made by said officers on a card game being played in Room 604 of the Hilton Hotel in the City of El Paso on March 21, 1958.

The record reveals that the officers in question who conducted the raid had peered, or peeked, through a small crack or peep-hole and, after so doing, secured a search warrant. Returning to the hotel with the search warrant, the officers broke in the door and arrested five…