Case Name: Smith v. Commonwealth
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1924-04-16
Citations: 202 Ky. 658
Docket Number: 
Parties: Smith v. Commonwealth.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 202
Pages: 658–658

Head Matter:
Smith v. Commonwealth.
(Decided April 16, 1924.)
Appeal from Pike Circuit Court.
Criminal Law — Peremptory Instruction should be Given where Evidence Secured Under Invalid Search Warrant. — Where the only culpable evidence was procured under and by virtue of an invalid search warrant, a peremptory instruction should have been given.
ROSCOE VANOVER for appellant.
FRANK E. DAUGHERTY, Attorney General, and GARDNER K. BYERS, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Opinion:
Opinion of the Court by
Judge McCandless
Reversing.
Appellant was convicted of an offense under the Rash-Guliion Act. The only culpable evidence was procured under and by virtue of a search warrant. The appellant insists and the learned attorney general admits that this warrant was invalid.
Upon examination of the warrant we. have readied the same conclusion, and it follows that a peremptory instruction should have been given.
Wherefore judgment is reversed and cause remanded for proceedings consistent-with tfiis opinion.