United States v. Milton James Roth

SWYGERT, Circuit Judge.

Milton James Roth appeals from a judgment of conviction pursuant to a jury verdict of guilty. The indictment charged that he knowingly had in his possession goods stolen from a shipment in interstate commerce in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 659. The only question in this appeal concerns the propriety of the district court’s pre-trial ruling denying Roth’s motion to suppress evidence seized pursuant to the execution of a search warrant.

On October 27, 1965 approximately three thousand Hamilton Beach blenders were placed on a truck in Chicago destined for Philadelphia. During…