Samuel Wrightson v. United States

PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Wrightson was indicted, tried and convicted with three other accused persons for an armed robbery. At the trial a box, a gun, and some cartridges were offered in evidence and admitted over objection. The ground of the objection was that the evidence was .seized in an illegal search.

Police officers arrested Wrightson in his apartment at about five-thirty o’clock ■on the morning of July 29, 1953. The robbery for which he was ultimately indicted had occurred July 17, 1953, twelve days prior to the a-rrest. The officers had .neither an arrest warrant nor a…