Court Opinion

ID: 9765081
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 03:50:13.470608+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:04.884005
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OSBORNE, Justice
(dissenting).
I dissent from so much of the majority opinion as holds that a wife has authority to consent to a search of her husband’s home. I recognize that there is a conflict of the authority upon this point, see 31 A. L.R.2d 1078, Annot., Search and Seizure, at page 1091.
It is my belief that the better rule is that the wife should not have authority to consent to the search, in the absence of her husband, especially where that which is sought is something personal to the husband. This seems to me to comport with the spirit and purpose of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article 10 of the Kentucky Constitution. This court has so held in the past, see Veal v. Commonwealth, 199 Ky. 634, 251 S.W. 648 (1923), Manning v. Commonwealth, Ky., 328 S.W.2d 421.
PALMORE, C. J., joins in this dissent.