Commonwealth v. Payton

Opinion by

Spaulding, J.,

This is an appeal by the Commonwealth from an order of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia County suppressing evidence seized from the residence of Mattie Velma Payton, appellee. The residence, 1726 West Oxford Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was searched on April 18, 1967 pursuant to a warrant, one copy book and 20 slips of paper containing approximately 3,185 plays being seized.

The sole issue raised on this appeal is whether the affidavit on which the search warrant was based established probable cause.

In passing on the validity of a search warrant we…