PEOPLE v. MAES

No. 25247.

491 P.2d 59 (1971)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Steve A. MAES, also known as Steve Alvin Maes, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

December 6, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl Parlapiano, Dist. Atty., Cecil L. Turner, Chief Deputy Dist. Atty., Tenth Judicial Dist., Pueblo, for plaintiff-appellant.

Rollie R. Rogers, Colo. State Public Defender, J. D. MacFarlane, Chief Deputy State Public Defender, Denver, J. E. Losavio, Jr., Asst. State Public Defender, Pueblo, for defendant-appellee.


KELLEY, Justice.

This is an interlocutory appeal by the People from an adverse ruling of the District Court of Pueblo County sustaining a motion to suppress evidence seized under a search warrant. We reverse the ruling.

The trial court found that the search warrant did not sufficiently identify the premises to be searched, as required by the Constitutions of the United States and of the state of Colorado.

The warrant described the premises as "basement...

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