Legal Opinion
Lem Pigg, Jr. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 15, 1964No. 17624PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MATTHES, Circuit Judge.
Lem Pigg, Jr. was found guilty by a jury of violating Title 18 U.S.C. § 659,1 and has appealed from the judgment of conviction under which he was imprisoned for a period of ten months.
The sole question for determination is whether there was probable cause for the arrest and the resulting seizure of the evidence on which the conviction rests. A timely motion to suppress the evidence was interposed by appellant and denied by the District Court.2
The Government established that during the night of December 26, 1963, at least one box or carton of shoes destined to St.…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Carroll v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
- Brinegar v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Johnson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Draper v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
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3Cited by31 opinions
- Klingler v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1969
- Nathaniel Vincent v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1964
- Henry Kenneth Wangrow v. United States of America (Two Cases). Daniel Edmund Czajkowski and Mark Edward Murphy v. United States of America (Two Cases)Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1968
- United States v. Doyle Ray SkinnerCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1969
- Harris v. StephensCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1966
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