Court Opinion

ID: 9625667
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 07:47:11.102693+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:57:06.697719
License: Public Domain

ELLETT, Justice
(concurring in the result).
I concur in the result but desire to add that it seems absolutely ridiculous to even think of turning a guilty felon free because some appellate court thinks the magistrate did not have any reason to believe that the facts in the affidavit for a search warrant were true. There is no question but what they were true. A search under the war*165rant revealed exactly the articles sought to be found.
It is impossible for me to believe that a guilty felon has been prejudiced by any failure of a magistrate when issuing a search warrant to have grounds to believe that which is absolutely true. The defendant will have his day in court and at the trial the issue will be “is he guilty” and not “was the magistrate imposed upon.”