John E. Adams v. United States of America, Ernest J. Stuckey v. United States of America, Melvin R. Roots v. United States

McGOWAN, Circuit Judge:

These three appeals are from convictions under a joint indictment founded upon the robbery of a liquor store. Two issues are common to each appeal. They are (1) the existence of probable cause for arrest and accompanying search, and (2) the admissibility of testimony of a police station identification made during a period of illegal detention in violation of Rule 5(a), Fed.R.Crim.P.1 The former involves problems of intra-police department communication; and we find no error in the District Court’s ruling on this point.2 We cannot agree, however, with its conclusion in…