State v. Mitchell

PARKER, Judge.

A Hertford County ABC enforcement officer and an Ahos-kie City policeman testified to searching defendants’ residence and finding nontaxpaid liquor therein. This evidence was sufficient to require submission of the cases to the jury and defendants’ motions for nonsuit were properly denied. The question presented by this appeal is the validity of the search and the admissibility in evidence of its results.

Evidence presented at the voir dire hearing held to determine validity of the search was not in dispute. At approximately 10:30 a.m. on 4 November 1972 the officers went to…