TYLER v. UNITED STATES

No. 6206.

302 A.2d 748 (1973)

Jesse A. TYLER, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 29, 1973.

Rehearing en Banc Denied June 7, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Salvatore A. Romano, Washington, D. C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Ruth R. Banks, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Harold H. Titus, Jr., U. S. Atty., John A. Terry and Peter C. Schaumber, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before REILLY, Chief Judge, and PAIR and YEAGLEY, Associate Judges.


YEAGLEY, Associate Judge:

This is an appeal from a conviction of a charge of carrying an unlicensed weapon in violation of D.C.Code 1967, § 22-3204. Appellant assigns as error the trial court's denial of his motion to suppress the gun as evidence claiming that its seizure resulted from an illegal search of his car. Finding that the warrantless search was unreasonable, we reverse.

On September 21, 1971, at approximately...

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