UNITED STATES v. MOORE

Nos. 5079, 5080.

263 A.2d 652 (1970)

UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. Sidney Harrison MOORE, Appellee. UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. Reuben William MOORE, Jr., Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 31, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory C. Brady, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Thomas A. Flannery, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, James E. Sharp and Broughton M. Earnest, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellant.

Glenn A. Mitchell, Washington, D. C., for appellees.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, and GALLAGHER and NEBEKER, Associate Judges.


HOOD, Chief Judge:

The sole question here is whether the trial court properly ruled that a search warrant did not particularly describe the place to be searched, as required by the Fourth Amendment and our statute,1 and therefore the evidence (marihuana) seized thereunder should be suppressed.

At the hearing on the motion to suppress the following facts were developed. The affidavit, on...

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