Melvina O'Neal v. United States

Melvina O’Neal was found guilty by a jury in the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia of maintaining a common nuisance by keeping a place resorted to by narcotic drug addicts for the purpose of using narcotic drugs, in violation of § 33-416, D.C.Code 1951. The Municipal Court of Appeals affirmed and we granted an appeal. Reference is made to that court’s opinion, reported in 1954, 105 A.2d 739, 741, for a statement of the facts.

Some days prior to the trial the appellant filed a written motion “that the evidence taken from her at the time of her arrest be suppressed at the trial…