Staton v. Commonwealth

BIRD, Judge.

Appellant was fined $100 and sentenced' to forty-five days in jail on a charge of selling intoxicating liquors in local option-territory. Fie complains that all of the-evidence upon which he was convicted was obtained by officers through an illegal entry upon his property. He claims that state-policemen came onto his private premises-without a search warrant, without a warrant of arrest, and when no offense had been previously committed in their presence. He claims that the officers were therefore trespassers and that the proof upon which he was convicted was obtained' in…