State v. Hatcher

Hugh Hatcher was charged, by information with the unlawful possession of heroin. We review the ruling of the trial judge suppressing the evidence obtained when Hatcher was arrested.

A police detective obtained a search warrant upon a showing that a reliable informer had told him that he had “seen large quantities of heroin being cut and bindled in the living room” of the apartment described in the search warrant. On the same day seven or eight police officers went to the apartment to execute the warrant.

Through a small window in the front door of the apartment the officers were able to see…