Legal Opinion

C. H. Bartlett and Henry Grady Armstrong v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided April 12, 1956No. 15745PublishedCited by 27 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

The appellants were convicted under two counts of an indictment charging bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 2113(a) and (d) 1 and each was sentenced to imprisonment for twenty-five years.

The most important question presented on appeal is the denial of appellants’ motion to suppress certain evidence 2 made on the ground that it had been obtained by means of an unreasonable search or seizure contrary to the Fourth Amendment. 3

On the hearing of the motion to suppress prior to the trial, testimony was received from appellant Bartlett, and from three agents of the…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. United States v. RabinowitzSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
  2. Agnello v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
  3. Harris v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
  4. Price v. JohnstonSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
  5. United States v. LefkowitzSupreme Court of the United States · 1932

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3Cited by27 opinions

  1. United States v. Gordon R. ThompsonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1965
  2. Fuqua v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1962
  3. Hubert Vernon Hardin v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1963
  4. Rufus Glenn Sisk v. Ward Lane as Warden of the Indiana State PrisonCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1964
  5. Roynica v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1974

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