George M. Mitchell v. United States

Armed with a search warrant, officers found contraband drugs in Mitchell’s house and in his immediate possession. His pre-trial motion to suppress, based upon a claim that the Commissioner issued the warrant without a proper showing of probable cause, was denied. The motion was renewed at the trial and again denied. Having been found guilty by the jury, Mitchell appeals.

He assigns as error the trial court’s denial of the motion to suppress and its refusal to grant his motion for judgment of acquittal made at the conclusion *436of the Government’s proof. We think the District Judge acted correctly…