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JANNEY v. UNITED STATES

No. 6620.

206 F.2d 601 (1953)

JANNEY v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 23, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Barton Harrington and R. Palmer Ingram, Baltimore, Md., for appellant.

Thomas G. Gray, Asst. U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md. (Bernard J. Flynn, U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

The question in this case is whether the actions of government agents in securing evidence which led to the conviction of Brown Janney of the unlawful possession of untaxed distilled spirits constituted a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

A criminal information was filed against Janney charging that on December 21, 1952, near Rising Sun, Maryland, in violation of 26 U.S.C.A. § 2803 of the...

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