Courson v. State
Courson v. State
Opinion of the Court
"Where the information upon which an officer seeks the issuance of a search warrant comes from an informant who is not named, it is essential that sufficient facts be stated with specificity to indicate that the
As was held in Burns v. State, 119 Ga. App. 678, 683, supra: "It is not enough simply to recite that from information received from a reliable informant the affiant has come to suspect or to believe that a named person is in possession of contraband items. Nathanson v. U. S., 290 U. S. 41 (54 SC 11, 78 LE 159).” See Patterson v. State, 124 Ga. App. 465 (184 SE2d 228). The warrant having been illegally issued it was error to deny the motion to suppress.
Judgment reversed.
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