United States v. Louis M. Darensbourg

GEE, Circuit Judge:

This hard but simple case concerns the validity of a state search warrant, attacked on two grounds. The first questions whether the warrant “ . particularly describes] the place to be searched . . . . ” as commanded by the Fourth Amendment. The second attacks the affidavit upon which the warrant is based as defective for lack of an assertion in terms of the informant’s reliability. A search by authority of the warrant produced the weapons named in it: three revolvers and a sawed-off shotgun allegedly used in the armed robbery of a drive-in grocery. But the district court…