SILER v. UNITED STATES

No. 3844.

215 A.2d 478 (1965)

Jesse SILER, Jr., Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 23, 1965.

Rehearing Denied January 13, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter R. Sherman (appointed by this court), Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Allan M. Palmer, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom John C. Conliff, Jr., U. S. Atty., and Frank Q. Nebeker, Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, and QUINN ond MYERS, Associate Judges.


QUINN, Associate Judge:

Appellant was arrested on a charge of narcotic vagrancy when police officers found him in an apartment containing narcotic paraphernalia. The officers had entered the apartment pursuant to a search warrant issued by the United States Commissioner on the basis of information supplied in an affidavit. The affidavit recited that "previously reliable" sources of information told the affiant (a detective on the Narcotics Squad of the Metropolitan...

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