UNITED STATES v. MILLAR

No. 75-1788.

543 F.2d 1280 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Alex Daniel MILLAR, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

November 8, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alison K. Schuler, Asst. U. S. Atty., Albuquerque, N. M. (Victor R. Ortega, U. S. Atty., Don J. Svet, Asst. U. S. Atty., Albuquerque, N. M., on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Larry L. Debus, Phoenix, Ariz. (Robert J. Lyman of Debus, Busby & Green, Ltd., Phoenix, Ariz., on the brief), for defendant-appellant.

Before SETH, HOLLOWAY and McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

The issue presented in this appeal is the legality of a search of a U-Haul trailer in which 780 pounds of marijuana having a street sale value of approximately $200,000 was seized. In our view the search was a proper one, and the conviction should be affirmed.

Alex Daniel Millar was driving a 1975 Chrysler pulling a U-Haul trailer in an easterly direction on Interstate Highway 40 approaching Gallup, New Mexico. The New Mexico State...

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