Robert H. McLindon v. United States

WASHINGTON, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted of transporting a motor vehicle in interstate commerce, knowing that the vehicle had been stolen, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2312. In this court his contention is that the Government was not entitled to use the testimony of certain witnesses at his trial, urging that the identity of each of these witnesses and the nature of the testimony they would give was learned only as a result of the unlawful search of appellant’s automobile, and the unlawful seizure of documents and articles found in it.

It appeared at the trial that on October 10, 1962,…