Giordano v. State

This is an appeal by Salvatore Giordano from a judgment on a verdict of guilty, rendered by the trial judge sitting without a jury, on three counts of an indictment charging him with bookmaking activities on July 19, 1952.

The appellant claims that the affidavit upon which the search warrant was based did not contain facts constituting probable cause for the issuance of the search warrant and that the evidence obtained thereby was not properly admissible against him.

The facts alleged in the application for the search warrant, for the purposes of this case, substantially follow. Upon complaint…