Edelin v. United States

MYERS, Associate Judge:

In October 1964 appellant was arrested for false pretenses. A search warrant was issued commanding police officers to search appellant’s room and to seize a check writing machine and an undetermined number of blank checks. During the search the officers located nothing described in the warrant but did find, when an officer lifted a pillow from appellant’s bed, recognizable narcotics paraphernalia — a hypo dermic needle and syringe, a bent spoon, usable as a narcotics “cooker,” and tissue paper, all wrapped in a stocking. These were seized and later placed under chemical…