BARRIENTES v. UNITED STATES

No. 15935.

235 F.2d 116 (1956)

Pauline Contreras BARRIENTES, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 24, 1956.

Certiorari Denied October 22, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. C. Gonzales, San Antonio, Tex., Pete Tijerina, San Antonio, Tex., for appellant.

Harman Parrott, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Russell B. Wine, U. S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and RIVES and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Denied October 22, 1956. See 77 S.Ct. 102.

PER CURIAM.

Found guilty by a jury of, and sentenced for, violations of the narcotics laws of the United States, the defendant is here assigning as error: (1) the admission of the narcotics into evidence over the objection of defendant that the search warrant was illegally served; and (2) the denial of her motion for an instructed verdict.

The ground of the first claim is that the officers who seized...

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