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SUTTON v. UNITED STATES

No. 7849.

267 F.2d 271 (1959)

Otis SUTTON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 21, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann E. Calevas and Samuel Goldblatt, Norfolk, Va., for appellant.

W. F. Powers, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Norfolk, Va. (John M. Hollis, U. S. Atty., Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and BOREMAN and THOMPSON, District Judges.

SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.

Convicted under an indictment charging in four counts the operation of an illicit still and related offenses, Otis Sutton on this appeal raises two points. The first is that the arresting officers detained him for an unreasonable length of time before taking him to the United States Commissioner, in violation of Rule 5(a) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, 18 U.S.C.A. See Title 18, Sec. 3771. The second ground of appeal relates to the...

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