State v. Sabo
State v. Sabo
Opinion of the Court
All of these causes were admitted to this court upon the sustaining of motions to certify the records, and each and all of them were for violations of the Crabbe Act (Section 6212-13 et seq., General Code; 108 O. L., pt. 2, 1182); and were tried in the mayor’s court of Crestline, Crawford county. While the cases are in no way connected, and were in fact tried separately, the error proceedings have been carried on jointly, and the essential facts are sufficiently common to all the cases to permit them to be disposed of in a single opinion.
The first question for determination arises under the form of the warrant for search and seizure, it being claimed that the warrant was wholly void by
“These are, therefore, to command you, in the name of the state of Ohio, with the necessary and proper assistance, to enter, in the daytime (or in the nighttime) * * *”
It was manifestly the legislative intent that the officer in preparing the warrant should strike out either the words “in the daytime” or “(or in the nighttime).” In the evidence found in the records of these cases the officer inadvertently left both phrases in the warrant, and the question is therefore presented whether by reason of the fact of both phrases being left in the warrant the warrant is thereby rendered null and void.
By reference to Section 13484, General Code, it will be found that—
“The command of the warrant shall be that the search be made in the daytime, unless there is urgent necessity for a search in the night, in which case a search in the night may be ordered.”
By reference to the affidavit which was filed to obtain the issuance of the search warrant it is found that thé printed form of affidavit contained the following printed language, “and that there is urgent necessity for the search therefor to be made in the night,” but these words were stricken out by the affiant and no showing was therefore made of any necessity for this search being made otherwise than
Even if the searches had been grossly irregular, it would not follow that the evidence thus obtained would be inadmissible, or that the convictions based thereon should be reversed. It is the contention of counsel for the accused in each of these cases that in all cases the searches were of bona fide private residences. It is not doubted that they were in fact dwelling houses, and the question arises under the peculiar facts of the cases whether they were “bona fide private residences” within the meaning of Sections 6212-16 and 6212-27, General Code. Section 6212-16 (108 O. L., pt. 2, 1183) provides:
“No search warrant shall issue to search any private dwelling occupied as such unless it is being used for the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor, or unless it is in part used for some business purpose such as store, shop, saloon, restaurant, hotel or boarding house.”
Section 6212-27 (109 O. L., 6) provides:
“And no place shall be regarded as a bona fide, private residence under the laws prohibiting the liquor traffic, wherein liquors are possessed which have been illegally manufactured or obtained.”
In the case of Bosanski v. State, 106 Ohio St., 442, 140 N. E., 370, this court in the fourth paragraph of the syllabus declared that irregular process resulting in seizure, or seizure without process, would not void the seizure “unless the seizure was made in a bona fide private dwelling.” We still adhere to that doctrine, but it seems necessary to further elaborate thereon. Under the provisions of the see
“A room or building in which the making, preparing, or repairing of any article is carried on, or in which any industry is pursued; * * * the place where anything is made; the producing place or source.”
For the foregoing reasons the judgments of the Court of Appeals in all eases are reversed and the convictions in the mayor’s court of Crestline are affirmed.
Judgments reversed.
Reference
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- The State of Ohio v. Sabo The State of Ohio v. Sabo The State of Ohio v. Vuckovich The State of Ohio v. Vuckovich The State of Ohio v. Klein
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