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46 Ala. App. 365

Dean v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama

Decided December 15, 1970

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · decided 1970-12-15

Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1986

8 state decisions

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““Finally, we agree with the Court of Criminal Appeals that the affidavit is deficient because it fails to show that the information received from the informant was fresh as opposed to being remote. No date is stated in the affidavit other than the date it was signed before the judge of the county court.””

quoted by 1 later decision, including 50 Ala. App. 143 - McCray v. State

Relies on Rosencranz v. United States · 237 So. 2d 640 - Ex Parte State Ex Rel. Attorney General · State Ex Rel. Attorney General

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Decided 1970-12-15

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CATES, Judge.

¶1Possession of marijuana: sentence, two years with probation denied.

¶2The State secured its evidence by getting a search warrant. Part of the affidavit laid before the issuing judge read:

I have received information from a reliable informant that he knows that illegal drugs and Marihuana are being sold and kept in this apartment as he has seen it in there. He has also been to parties where these drugs and Marihuana were used. There is one instance where the police were called to this apartment to check on a woman screaming and the officer who investigated reported the woman to be on drugs. My informant has given me information in the last three months and it has been reliable.”

¶3The trial judge who ruled the evidence admissible did not have the opinion of the Supreme Court in Davis v. State, 286 Ala. 117, 237 So.2d 640. There Merrill, J., said in part:

“Finally, we agree with the Court of Criminal Appeals that the affidavit is deficient because it fails to show that the information received from the informant was fresh as opposed to being 'remote. No date is stated in the affidavit other than the date it was signed before the judge of the county court.”

¶4This apparently was approval of our relying on Dandrea v. United States, 8 Cir., 7 F.2d 861 and Rosencranz v. United States, 1 Cir., 356 F.2d 310.

¶5For this error, the judgment below is reversed and the cause remanded.

¶6Reversed and remanded.

ALMON, J., not sitting.
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