James O. Hinton, Jr. v. United States

SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON, III, Circuit Judge:

Appellant was convicted on two counts of an indictment for narcotic offenses, 1 emanating from his possession of 30 capsules allegedly containing heroin which were found in a pocket of the jacket he was wearing when arrested. He contends (1) that, for lack of probable cause for the arrest, the capsules were illegally seized, (2) that the fifteen-month delay between his arrest and trial infringed his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial, and (3) that the evidence was insufficient to show that the capsules contained more than a trace of a narcotic…