United States v. Altizer

OPINION

MASTERSON, District Judge.

This is a motion by defendant to suppress evidence based upon the illegality of his arrest.

The defendant in this case is charged with passing four forged one hundred dollar postal money orders in West Virginia.1 He was arrested on July 13, 1967 in a tavern in Philadelphia. The facts leading up to defendant’s arrest are as follows:

At approximately 11:45 P.M. on that date Officer John Kennedy of the Philadelphia Police Force was approached by an unidentified well-dressed man in the vicinity of the tavern. He told the officer that he had just been approached in…