Gantt v. United States

KELLY, Associate Judge.

In the execution of a search warrant for an apartment in northwest Washington and an arrest warrant for one Lee Daniel Richardson, police officers found four persons present in the apartment: Richardson, appellant, and two other men who were not arrested. Observation and a search of the one-room apartment turned up a number of hypodermic syringes and “cookers”, two *352cutting screens,1 and an empty red gelatin capsule. Appellant was arrested only after rent receipts were discovered showing him to be the lessee of the apartment. He was convicted by a jury of possession of…