CARROLL v. UNITED STATES

No. 15.

267 U.S. 132 (1925)

45 S.Ct. 280

69 L.Ed. 543

CARROLL ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 2, 1925.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Thomas E. Atkinson and Mr. Clare J. Hall, for plaintiffs in error, submitted. Mr. James N. Lombard was also on the brief.1

Mr. Solicitor General Beck, with whom Mr. Geo. Ross Hull, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the brief, for the United States.2


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT, after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the Court.

The constitutional and statutory provisions involved in this case include the Fourth Amendment and the National Prohibition Act.

The Fourth Amendment is in part as follows:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon...

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