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BROOKS v. UNITED STATES

No. 2465.

159 A.2d 876 (1960)

William E. BROOKS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided April 7, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Emmett McKenzie, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Donald S. Smith, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Carl W. Belcher, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ROVER, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.

ROVER, Chief Judge.

Appellant was convicted of petit larceny under Code 1951, § 22-2202 (Supp. VII). He assigns as error in this appeal the denial of his motion to suppress evidence seized at the time of his arrest, contending that there was no probable cause to justify the arrest made without a warrant.1

The factual background is as follows. The arresting officer had been assigned...

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