UNITED STATES v. HARDY


160 F.Supp. 47 (1956)

UNITED STATES of America v. Garland Alfonzo HARDY, Defendant.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

July 16, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reuben Terris, New York City, for appellant.

John D. Roeder, Asst. U. S. Atty. for the Southern District of New York, New York City, for the United States.


THOMAS F. MURPHY, District Judge.

On oral argument defendant relied exclusively on the alleged illegal arrest for the suppression of the physical evidence seized and the signed confession. His argument was that the John Doe warrant did not describe the defendant with any reasonable degree of certainty because defendant is in fact 6' 1" tall and the warrant describes him as about 5' 10". It was conceded that the other parts of defendant's description in the warrant...

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