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Smith v. State

Citations

  • 87 So. 2d 917
  • 228 Miss. 476
  • 58 A.L.R. 2d 1052
  • 1956 Miss. LEXIS 535

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  • holding that an officer may not depart from the scene of an observed crime and later return to arrest the offender without a warrant, since any reasonable justification for failing to obtain a warrant had disappeared

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Judges: Gillespie, McGehee, Ethridge

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