Billy Joe Helton v. United States

WRIGHT, District Judge.

Appellant was convicted on two counts in an indictment charging violations of Title 26, Sections 2593(a) and 3234 relating to the illegal acquisition and production of marijuana. He asks reversal of that conviction because of the trial court’s failure to suppress certain evidence and the admission in evidence of alleged improper and prejudicial testimony.

The record shows that on May 20, 1953, three police officers of the Dallas, Texas, police force, using an admittedly invalid search warrant issued by a local judge, searched the homo of the defendant where a small…