Commonwealth v. Minton

WICKERSHAM, Judge:

This is an appeal by the Commonwealth from the lower court’s order granting appellees’ motions to suppress. 1 We reverse.

The facts underlying this appeal may be summarized as follows. On April 1,1979, an undercover narcotics investigator for the Pennsylvania State Police obtained a warrant from a district magistrate to search a residence located at 309 East Springfield Road in Springfield Township, Pennsylvania. The warrant stated that the residence was possessed by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Scarlata and that the items to be searched for were marijuana, narcotics paraphernalia,…