Legal Opinion
Larry Joe Miller v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 22, 1960No. 17629_1PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.
The principal issue in this appeal from a conviction for illegal possession and transportation of narcotics, 26 U.S.C.A. § 4744(a) (1) & (2), concerns the Government’s privilege against disclosure of the identity of an informer who brought criminal information to the police.
Being tipped off by an informer, Dallas police officers and a federal narcotics agent located a quart Miracle Whip jar secreted in a leaf-covered hole several feet off a dirt road described as inter- seating and dead-ending Celestial Road near a cemetery in an uninhabited area in northern…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Roviaro v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Romero v. International Terminal Operating Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1959
- Scher v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- McCoy Gilmore v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1958
- Rent v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1954
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3Cited by64 opinions
- Gordon v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
- State v. TexeiraHawaii Supreme Court · 1967
- Carver v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1978
- United States v. James G. BarnesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1973
- Commonwealth v. SwensonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
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