State v. Ward

OTT, Judge.

The state challenges the suppression of evidence in this prosecution for bookmaking. We hold that the affidavit for the search warrant was sufficient without those allegations based upon impermissible electronic surveillance and therefore reverse.

Appellee was arrested and charged with bookmaking after execution of a search warrant on the premises of one Elmira Parker. Her motion to suppress alleged that the search and seizure were invalid because the affidavit for the warrant was based in part on the unreasonable interception of private communications between Elmira Parker and a…