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LYONS v. UNITED STATES

No. 3994.

221 A.2d 711 (1966)

Albert LYONS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 25, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles R. Work c/o Georgetown Law School, Washington, D. C. (appointed by this court) for appellant.

Dean W. Determan, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom David G. Bress, U. S. Atty., and Frank Q. Nebeker and Geoffrey M. Alprin, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

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

HOOD, Chief Judge.

This appeal is from a conviction under our Narcotic Vagrancy statute.1 At trial and here appellant has challenged the legality of his arrest and the search which followed.

The arresting officer, Gibson, testified that he and two other officers in plain clothes were in a private automobile parked in front of a building on Fourth Street, Southeast watching for daytime housebreakings in that area. At about 12:30...

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