JONES v. UNITED STATES

No. 18365.

326 F.2d 124 (1963)

James Coley JONES, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 28, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edgar G. Langford and J. Perry Langford, San Diego, Cal., for appellant.

Francis C. Whelan, U. S. Atty., Thomas R. Sheridan, Asst. U. S. Atty., Chief Criminal Section, and J. Brin Schulman, Asst. U. S. Atty., for appellee.

Before BARNES and DUNIWAY, Circuit Judges, and PENCE, District Judge.


BARNES, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of possession of marihuana, violating Section 176a of Title 21 United States Code, and was sentenced to prison. Appellant's automobile was stopped after a United States Customs Agent had been personally informed, through an informant known to him (who had given reliable information in the past with respect to unlawful importation) that "two colored people, a man and a woman driving a 1956 Buick automobile red...

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