The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-02
he Right Liquor Warrant.


uestion decisions ever rendered by O
ederal court in this state was handed
own Thursday by Judge Rhydon NJ.
t Jacksonville.
He ruled that there are certain
Kings prescribed by the law as neces-
airy parts of search warrant, and
ntil those things are done there is no
light on the part of any official to en-
er and search a mans premises,
One trouble with the enforcement of
he prohibition law has been that too
ften a class has been deputized for
york which could not get a job at any
hing else in the country. Men of lit
lie judgment armed with the belief
hat as prohibition law enforcement
Ulcers they have the right and the
,ower to do anything they take no
ion to. The actions of these and other
ll-sorted ones, has brought contumely
n the law, and aroused spirit of de-
lance in the breast of every red blood
d man and woman who reads or exper-
ences them.
The case before Judge Hall was that
If a citizen of Miami whose home was
uttered by federal prohibition agents
ind a quantity of liquor seized. Judge
Call ordered the liquor to be returned
o the owner on the ground that the
search warrant had not been properly
executed, it having been altered from
one address to another following the
movement of Mr.. Armstrong, the own
ar, from one county to another.
~ feyYII. RI
10 doubt in the mind of one reading
the act that when a search warrant
applied for to search a private dwell
ing something more must be stated
than for store or other place of bus
mess. A mans private dwelling, be-
ing his castle, should not be invaded
except and unless it was being used
for the unlawful sale of intoxicating
liquor, or being used for one of more
of the businesses mentioned in. the
quotation above. And those facts must
must be therein contained as will
raise in the mind of the officer issu-
ing the warrant a reasonable ground
to believe such fact exists. 1t is appar-
ent in this case that the search and
seizure of the liquor from petitioners
private dwelling was illegal and under
the law there is nothing to do but
grant his petition"
Judge Call is eninently right in his
ruling. 1t. has been held for years by all
the courts that search warrant can
not be issued in blank to be filled in
by the executing officer at his pleas
ure. The ruling of the courts have
been without break in declaring that
before a search warrant is isuued
there must be probable cause support
ed by afifdavits, a specific naming and
describing of the party, and a particu-
lar description of the place to be
searched; and no blanket" or blank
warrant can meet those requirements"
Tampa Tribune.
Better Americans.
Strange thing about socialistsi They
are pledged to Internationally and
saturated with the doctrine that the
working classes should inherit the
earth and the fu1lness thereof.
But in a convention at Detroit the
socialists party Of the United states
has rejected all foreign alliances
third internationales, two and one
half internationales and Moscow die
Socialists brandished
menacing fist under the nose of Leon
Trotzlxy. They cast out, rejected and
condemned utterly the idea of work /
ing class dictation.
\ group of capitalists, the United /
States Chamber of Commerce or any
group of bankers. industrial chieftains
that might be named, would not have
repudiated the idea of proletariat rule
with more vehemence than did Morris