Ulysses Walker v. United States

Appellant’s primary contention is that the testimony of a narcotics agent should have been suppressed. At his trial, an informer testified as to a transaction between appellant and himself and was corroborated by the agent, who overheard by means of an electronic transmitting device concealed on the informer’s person. The argument that the use of an electronic transmitter in this manner is forbidden by Katz v. United States, 1967, 389 U.S. 347, 88 S.Ct. 507, 19 L.Ed. 2d 576, has been rejected by this Court. Velez v. United States, 5th Cir. 1968, 397 F.2d 788, [June 14, 1968] ; Dryden v.…