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UNITED STATES v. LYLES

No. 73-2944. Summary Calendar.

488 F.2d 290 (1974)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Sherman Vernon LYLES, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 17, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James O. Ford, Oxford, Miss. (Court-appointed), for defendant-appellant.

H. M. Ray, U. S. Atty., Alfred E. Moreton, III, William M. Dye, Jr., Oxford, Miss., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before THORNBERRY, GOLDBERG and RONEY, Circuit Judges.

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:

Again we are faced with that oft-recurring question: Did the police have probable cause to arrest the defendant? We agree with the district court that probable cause existed at the time of the arrest, and thus, we affirm.

A jury convicted appellant Lyles on four substantive counts of uttering forged postal money orders in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 500 and on one count of conspiring to utter forged postal money orders in violation...

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