Case ID: sw2d_3/html/0448-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MARTIN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BLANKS v. STATE.
    (No. 10958.)
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Feb. 29, 1928.
    Criminal law <&wkey;394 — Evidence obtained by search under search warrant, complaint for which was based on information and belief, held inadmissible in liquor prosecution.
    Evidence obtained as result of search under search warrant, complaint, for which was based on information and belief, and which contained a statement of no facts showing probable cause, held inadmissible in liquor prosecution. .
    Commissioners’ Decision.
    Appeal from District Court, Taylor County ; W. R. Ely, Judge.
    Charlie Blanks was convicted of possessing liquors containing in excess of 1 per cent, of alcohol by volume, and he appeals.
    Reversed and remanded.
    Kirby, King & Overshiner, of Abilene, for appellant.
    Sam D. Stinson, State’s Atty., and Robt. M. Lyles, Asst. State’s Atty., both of Austin, for the State.
   MARTIN, J.

Offense, the possession of liquors containing in excess of 1 per cent, of alcohol by volume; penalty, two years in the penitentiary.

‘ Operating under an illegal search warrant, the officers of Taylor county searched a business house 'in possession of appellant and found therein a quantity of liquors admitted to contain over 1 per cent, of alcohol by volume. The search warrant was issued by virtue of a complaint based upon information and belief, and which contained a statement of no facts showing probable cause. Proper and timely objections were made to the reception of this evidence, and its admission was erroneous under the uniform holdings of this court. Chapin v. State, 107 Tex. Cr. R. 477, 296 S. W. 1095; Sutton v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 300 S. W. 639; Lawhorn v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 299 S. W. 413; Alva McLennan v. State, 3 S.W.(2d) 447, No. 11288, not yet officially reported.

For the error in the admission of this evidence, the judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded.

PER CURIAM. The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved hy the court.