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WRIGHTSON v. UNITED STATES

No. 12038.

222 F.2d 556 (1955)

Samuel WRIGHTSON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 10, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Saul G. Lichtenberg, Washington, D. C. (appointed by the District Court), with whom Mr. Evan T. Davis, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Carl W. Belcher, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Mr. Leo A. Rover, U. S. Atty., and Messrs. Lewis Carroll and Arthur McLaughlin, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before WILBUR K. MILLER, PRETTYMAN and FAHY, Circuit Judges.

PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Wrightson was indicted, tried and convicted with three other accused persons for an armed robbery. At the trial a box, a gun, and some cartridges were offered in evidence and admitted over objection. The ground of the objection was that the evidence was seized in an illegal search.

Police officers arrested Wrightson in his apartment at about five-thirty o'clock on the morning of July 29, 1953. The robbery for which he was...

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