MURPHY v. STATE

No. 44038.

195 So.2d 519 (1967)

Merle MURPHY v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 20, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert F. Bauch, Tupelo, for appellant.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., by G. Garland Lyell, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.


ROBERTSON, Justice.

The Appellant, Merle Murphy, was found guilty of possession of intoxicating beer in the Circuit Court of Lee County, Mississippi, Lee County being a dry county. Murphy appealed to this Court from that judgment.

The affidavit for a search warrant and the search warrant itself were on printed forms. No facts or circumstances whatsoever were stated in the affidavit, upon which a disinterested and impartial magistrate could make up his own...

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