Ortega v. State

The sole question presented concerns the failure of the State, upon timely objection, to produce and exhibit to the trial judge *879for his inspection the search warrant by which authority the officers testified they searched appellant’s home.

At the trial on the merits Detective Herbert Hill of the Killeen Police Department testified that on May 22, 1969, after an earlier surveillance of the building in question, he returned the same evening about 10:30 p. m. “with a warrant to search the residence of Mr. Ortega,” and forcibly entered when he discovered no one was there. No reference was made as…