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METTS v. UNITED STATES

No. 11748.

388 A.2d 47 (1978)

Gordon P. METTS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 12, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Stoppelman, Washington, D. C., appointed by the court, for appellant.

Reggie B. Walton, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., and John A. Terry, William J. Hardy, Jr. and Bette E. Uhrmacher, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before NEWMAN, Chief Judge, and YEAGLEY and HARRIS, Associate Judges.

HARRIS, Associate Judge:

Appellant was convicted by a jury of unlawful possession of a pistol.1 D.C.Code 1973, § 22-3203. He contends that the pistol was seized impermissibly. Specifically, he asserts (1) that the affidavit filed by the government in support of its application for a search warrant failed to provide probable cause for the issuance of a warrant, and (2) that even if the affidavit was facially sufficient, it contained...

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