Faulk v. State

Citations

• 127 Miss. 894
• 90 So. 48

Syllabus

<p>Crimina!, Law. Defendant, consenting to unlazvful search, cannot object to introduction of evidence seised.</p> <p>In a case where a defendant is convicted of a charge of manufacturing intoxicating liquors in violation of section 18, chapter 189, Laws 1918, and there is introduced in evidence by the state over defendant’s objection, the still and whisky seized by the officers in making a search of the defendant’s home without a search warrant, and the defendant objects to-the introduction of such still and whisky in evidence on the ground that the officers procured possession of the same through a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and section 83. of the Constitution of the state, guaranteeing the people security in .their persons, houses, and possessions against unreasonable search and seizure, the defendant is not in a position to invoke the principle referred to where the evidence shows that he consented that the officers make such search.</p>