JENNINGS v. UNITED STATES

No. 13629.

247 F.2d 784 (1957)

Geraldine JENNINGS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided May 29, 1957.

Petition for Rehearing Denied June 20, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Laurence S. Fordham, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Irving R. M. Panzer, Washington, D. C. (both appointed by this Court), was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Harold H. Greene, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Mr. Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., and Messrs. Lewis Carroll and Arthur J. McLaughlin, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before PRETTYMAN, FAHY and DANAHER, Circuit Judges.


PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted of a violation of the narcotics laws.1 Her points on appeal go principally to the validity of her arrest and the legality of the seizure of certain narcotics paraphernalia and narcotics.

Police officers set about to investigate a report that heroin was being "capped" at a certain address, a rooming house, and were properly admitted to the...

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