SEYMOUR v. UNITED STATES

No. 10130.

177 F.2d 732 (1949)

SEYMOUR v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided October 24, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. M. Edward Buckley, Jr., Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mr. Joseph M. Howard, Assistant United States Attorney, Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. George Morris Fay, United States Attorney, and A. J. McLaughlin, Assistant United States Attorney, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Mr. Lo Clark Ewing, Assistant United States Attorney, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellee.

Before EDGERTON, PRETTYMAN, and PROCTOR, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Appellant has been convicted of keeping a bawdy house. Her chief contention is that the warrant on which she was arrested was obtained without probable cause in violation of the Fourth Amendment, so that the arrest was unlawful and the evidence it uncovered should have been excluded. We think there was plenty of probable cause, partly in what the officers who swore out the warrant had observed and partly in what other persons had told them. "Probable cause...

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