Case Name: PEOPLE v. WOODS
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1924-07-24
Citations: 228 Mich. 87
Docket Number: Docket No. 101
Parties: PEOPLE v. WOODS.
Judges: McDonald, Bird, Sharpe, Moore, Steere, Fellows, and Wiest, JJ., concurred.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 228
Pages: 87–88

Head Matter:
PEOPLE v. WOODS.
Intoxicating Liquors — Search Warrant — Affidavit — Sufficiency.
An affidavit for a search warrant stating that affiant searched a certain person just outside of a certain building and found no intoxicating liquor in his possession and no smell thereof on his person or clothes, and that said person then entered said building and when he came out his clothes smelled of whisky which he had obtained therein, and which affiant sent him in to purchase, held, sufficient under Comp. Laws Supp. 1922, § 7079 (25), to support a finding of probable cause by the magistrate for issuing the warrant.
Exceptions before judgment from Bay; Houghton (Samuel G.), J.
Submitted June 13, 1924.
(Docket No. 101.)
Decided July 24, 1924.
Frank Woods was convicted of violating the liquor law.
Affirmed.
Collins & Thompson, for appellant.
Frank C. Patterson, Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Opinion:
Clark, C. J.
On exceptions before sentence, one question is presented for decision. Is the affidavit for the search warrant, respecting the matter stated by affiant of his own knowledge, sufficient to support a finding of probable cause by the magistrate for issuing the warrant? Comp. Laws Supp. 1922, § 7079 (25).
The language in question:
'Affiant searched a certain person just outside of and within view of said building and premises and found said person had no intoxicating liquor in his possession, nor any bottle or container capable of holding the same, nor did said person or his clothes smell of intoxicating liquor or whisky, and affiant then and there saw said person go into said building and after watching said building a short time affiant saw said person come out and come to affiant, and the clothes of said person then smelled of whisky which said person obtained in said building, and which whisky affiant sent said person into said building to purchase and said person told affiant he did purchase said whisky in said building from said Woods, all of which observation and acts occurred within three days next preceding the day of making this affidavit."
Under the following cases the warrant must be sustained, and we need not repeat what is there said: People v. Starkweather, 224 Mich. 137; People v. Musczynski, 220 Mich. 536; People v. Schregardus, 226 Mich. 279; People v. Warner, 221 Mich. 657.
Conviction affirmed. Cause remanded " for judgment.
McDonald, Bird, Sharpe, Moore, Steere, Fellows, and Wiest, JJ., concurred.