Brooke v. United States

HOOD, Chief Judge.

These appeals are from convictions of possession of narcotics, 1 and narcotic vagrancy. 2 No question is raised as to the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the convictions, but it is contended that a motion to suppress evidence seized at the time of arrest should have been granted. The arrests and seizures occurred under the following circumstances. On October 23,1963, detective Paul of the Narcotic Squad obtained a warrant for the arrest of one Scott. Between October 1963 and February 1964, he made three visits to a house where Scott was supposed to be living but was…