Melvin L. Brown v. United States

BURGER, Circuit Judge:

This appeal challenges the admissibility in evidence of items seized from a car Appellant was driving when arrested. His motion to suppress the evidence having been denied, Appellant was convicted of robbery and sentenced to imprisonment for from three to ten years. This appeal followed.

At about 4:20 on the morning of Monday, September 21, 1964, the Howard Johnson Motor Lodge at 2601 Virginia Ave., N.W., was robbed. At about 4:30 two police officers, having seen an old maroon Ford automobile being driven with its tag light out, 1 pulled up behind it at Logan Circle when…