Brooks v. Wynn

Armed with a warrant to search the “dwelling or outhouses connected therewith”, for “money and other chattels”, allegedly stolen, and for which theft suspicion was alleged to rest upon appellant, a group of officers repaired to his place of business in Holmes County, handed him the search warrant and placed him under arrest. The officers’ testimony as to the arrest is contradictory, one of them stating he had a capias to arrest appellant for assault and battery with intent to kill and murder the Town Marshal of Duck Hill in Montgomery County; while the sheriff of that county said there was no…