Legal Opinion
Lewis R. Dixon v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided October 19, 1961No. 16263PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge.
Dixon was indicted and tried on three counts and was convicted on one, which charged receipt of stolen property.
The question presented on this appeal is whether there was probable cause for the arrest, the pertinence of ■ the point being that the admissibility of the property seized at the time of the arrest depended upon it.
Two police officers were cruising in the Northwest section of Washington in the neighborhood of Griffith Stadium at about midnight. They noticed an Oldsmobile, in which were two men, one of them known to the officers as a safe-breaker. The…
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