HINTON v. UNITED STATES

No. 14455.

262 F.2d 36 (1958)

Robert F. HINTON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 4, 1958.

Petition for Rehearing Denied January 13, 1959.

Certiorari Denied March 23, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Donald E. Cross, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Bryce Rea, Jr., Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Louis M. Kaplan, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., Carl W. Belcher and Frederick G. Smithson, Asst. U. S. Attys. were on the brief, for appellee.

Before PRETTYMAN, Chief Judge, and EDGERTON and WASHINGTON, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Denied March 23, 1959. See 79 S.Ct. 726.

PER CURIAM.

This is a narcotics case. 26 U.S.C. § 4704(a) (Supp. V, 1958); 21 U.S.C.A. § 174 (Supp. V, 1958). Appellant urges that his conviction should be set aside because he was arrested without probable cause, and hence the narcotics taken from him by the police at the time of arrest should have been suppressed as evidence illegally taken. We cannot agree, as it seems to us that the information...

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