Commonwealth v. One 1955 Buick Sedan

Opinion by

Ervin, J.,

A hurricane, named Mapp v. Ohio,1 swept over our fair land last June. The present case is one of the numerous appeals coming to our Court as part of the backlash. It now becomes our duty to endeavor to reassemble the machinery for law enforcement in our Commonwealth.

It is apparently the view of many criminal defendants, as well as their counsel, that they may use Mapp as an escape hatch to be relieved from punishment for crimes of which there can be no reasonable doubt as to guilt. The Mapp case involved a search of a woman’s dwelling house and pretty rough treatment was…