Pritchard v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

The defendant was indicted and convicted of criminal trespass and livestock theft.

1. A motion to suppress evidence of meat found in the defendant’s home shortly after two of the prosecutor’s cows were slaughtered was made on the ground that the affidavit in support of the search warrant was insufficient on its face to show probable cause for issuance of the warrant. The warrant states in part, on the affidavit of a deputy sheriff of Atkinson County dated November 20, 1980, that the cows were killed and butchered on the owner’s property on November 9; “investigation and…