Rhinelda M. Bell v. United States

PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted for housebreaking and larceny. He claims an unreasonable search and seizure.

At about three-thirty o’clock one morning two police officers in a scout car saw appellant and another man in an automobile pull away from the curb in front of a food store and drive some two blocks without lights. The officers stopped them and asked to see the driver’s license and registration card. The inquiring officer used his flashlight and, while asking questions about the documents, flicked the light about the rear of the car. On the back seat…