Childress v. State, 28384

Decision Date10 October 1956
Docket NumberNo. 28384,28384
PartiesJim CHILDRESS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
CourtTexas Court of Criminal Appeals

[163 TEXCRIM 468] J. R. [Billy] Hall, Littlefield, for appellant.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Appellant's motion for rehearing is granted; the original opinion is withdrawn, and the following is substituted in lier thereof:

This is a conviction for violating the liquor laws, with punishment assessed at a fine of $750 and 120 days in jail.

Under and by virtue of a search warrant, peace officers searched the private residence of the appellant and found hidden under the floor of the northeast bedroom a large quantity of whisky.

No one was present or in the house at the time of the search. Entrance was obtained by prizing a door open.

The search warrant under which the search was made described in minute detail the location of the house authorized to be searched thereunder, as follows '* * * the first house facing north along the south side of the second street leading East from slaughter avenue south of the trafic control light, said light being at the entersection of Slaughter Avenue and FM 301 road in Sundown, Texas said house being a white colored house and immediately east of the old Sikes Coffee Shop building * * *.'

The search warrant did not allege that the house situated upon the above described premises was occupied by appellant as his private residence or that it was his residence. In the warrant the allegation was merely that the house was 'the premises occupied by, in charge of and under the control of Jim Childress.'

We have searched this record in vain for any evidence showing that the residence which was searched and in which the [163 TEXCRIM 469] liquor was found was upon the premises described in the search warrant.

Appellant strenuously objected throughout the trial that the search of his residence was made by reason of an invalid search warrant.

To meet that objection, the state was under the burden of proving that the liquor was found upon the premises authorized to be searched by a valid search warrant. This the state wholly failed to do.

The premises searched must correspond with those described in the warrant. Balch v. State, 134 Tex.Cr.R. 327, 115 S.W.2d 676.

In the case mentioned, the warrant described the premises to be searched as '302 East Robbins street,' while the premises searched were located at 304...

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  • Jones v. State
    • United States
    • Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
    • 14 Marzo 1973
    ...cites Balch v. State, 134 Tex.Cr.R. 327, 115 S.W.2d 676; Combs v. State, 141 Tex.Cr.R. 476, 149 S.W.2d 971 and Childress v. State, 163 Tex.Cr.R. 467, 294 S.W.2d 110. In Balch v. State, supra, this Court held that an affidavit and search warrant describing premises as '302 East Robbins Stree......
  • Haynes v. State
    • United States
    • Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
    • 14 Diciembre 1971
    ...is made that the place searched is the place described, specificity is met in the warrant. McCormick v. State, supra; Childress v. State, 163 Tex.Cr.R. 467, 294 S.W.2d 110; Harrison v. State, 149 Tex.Cr.R. 513, 196 S.W.2d 933; Rhodes v. State, We find that the directions to the officers wer......
  • Thomas v. Williams
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Southern District of Texas
    • 31 Marzo 2016
    ...676, 677 (1938, no pet.); Ervin v. State, 165 Tex. Crim. 391, 392, 307 S.W.2d 955, 955-56 (1957, no pet.); Childress v. State, 163 Tex. Crim. 467, 469, 294 S.W.2d 110, 111 (1956, no pet.)). However, in discussing the three cases cited by Plaintiff, Judge Davidson wrote that "[b]efore the wr......
  • McCormick v. State
    • United States
    • Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
    • 6 Enero 1960
    ...Such, however, is no longer true. Reference is here made to Balch v. State, 134 Tex.Cr.R. 327, 115 S.W.2d 676; Childress v. State, 163 Tex.Cr.R. 467, 294 S.W.2d 110; Ervin v. State, 165 Tex.Cr.R. 391, 307 S.W.2d We are not here dealing with any question as to the sufficiency of the designat......

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