UNITED STATES v. KOENIG

No. 18355.

290 F.2d 166 (1961)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Daniel J. KOENIG, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

April 12, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marshall Tanor Golding, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Lloyd G. Bates, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Miami, Fla., E. Coleman Madsen, U. S. Atty., Miami, Fla., for appellant.

Joseph P. Manners, Harold Peter Barkas, Miami, Fla., for appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and RIVES and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

The scales of justice are not always evenly balanced; one of the scales holds a few extra weights in favor of a person accused of crime. This appeal deals with one of those weights: the limited jurisdiction of this Court to hear a government appeal from an order of a district court suppressing evidence.1 For purposes of the appeal, two elements in the case are important...

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