Charles Herbert White v. United States

GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

The defendant was convicted in a jury trial in the District of Nebraska, the Honorable Richard E. Robinson presiding, of possession of counterfeit bills in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 472. The sole question on appeal is the validity of the arrest, the search of defendant’s rented car and the seizure of counterfeit Federal Reserve notes.

At about 1:00 p. m., June 7, 1970, a special agent in the Omaha, Nebraska, office of the Secret Service received a phone call from an informant that a man using a false name, Homer L. Bennett, was in town with a number of counterfeit $20…