Legal Opinion

McKnight v. United States

Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Decided June 28, 1950No. 10163_1PublishedCited by 112 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

EDGERTON, Circuit Judge.

The appellants were convicted of carrying on a lottery known as the numbers game. They urge several points but we think only one requires discussion.

In 1948 police repeatedly trailed appellant McKnight over a regular route in Washington and had reason to believe he was a numbers “pick-up” man. Until September 29 they always lost him in traffic before he reached the end of his route. On that day, for the first time, they saw him enter a house at 910 Kent Place. .The next day they got a warrant for his arrest, and also a warrant to search a house on Euclid Street. They…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. United States v. RabinowitzSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
  2. McDonald v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
  3. Harris v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
  4. United States v. LefkowitzSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
  5. Accarino v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1949

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3Cited by112 opinions

  1. Albert Douglas Davis v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1964
  2. Eduardo Amador-Gonzalez v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1968
  3. People v. HavenCalifornia Supreme Court · 1963
  4. Suarez v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1972
  5. Clarence Williams and Arlene Jackson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1969

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