U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1954

Miller v. United States

U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · Decided May 13, 1954

212 F.2d 809; 94 U.S. App. D.C. 419 (Federal Reporter, Second Series)

Counsel

Mr. Frank D. Reeves, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Curtis P. Mitchell, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellants., Mr. Samuel J. L’Hommedieu, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Leo A. Rover, U. S. Atty., and Lewis A. Carroll and Arthur J. McLaughlin, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appel-lee. Mr. William J. Peck, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., at time record was filed, entered an appearance for ap-pellee.

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

Appellants in these consolidated appeals were jointly tried and convicted for violations of the lottery laws.1 Their claims for reversal rest upon the contention that the trial court erred in denying their motions to suppress certain evidence obtained by police in the course of executing warrants to search the premises of appellant Miller and for his arrest Appellants vigorously assert that the warrants were issued without sufficient probable cause.

We think the motions were properly denied. The convictions are therefore

Affirmed.

. 22 D.C.Code 1951, §§ 1501, 1502.

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