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MARTINEZ v. UNITED STATES

No. 18090.

279 F.2d 161 (1960)

Roberto MARTINEZ, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 8, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. E. Talbot, Jr., New Orleans, La., for appellant.

Anthony Ortega, Jr., New Orleans, La., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Appellant, a Cuban crew member of the S.S. Atlantico, was convicted of knowingly bringing a quantity of marihuana into the United States in violation of 21 U.S.C.A. § 176a (1959 Supp.). Custom authorities, acting on information received from a paid informer, searched the S.S. Atlantico then docked in the Port of New Orleans and its crew and discovered the marihuana in brown manila envelopes secreted in the hull of the ship. Appellant was taken into...

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