Lerner v. United States

ROVER, Chief Judge.

Appellants were convicted of possessing with the intent to sell lewd and obscene photographs, films, and literature in violation of Code 1951, § 22-2001. Evidence seized under a search warrant was admitted at trial and appellants’ principal contention here is that their motion to suppress, seasonably filed before trial and renewed during the trial, should have been granted on the ground that the warrant was issued without probable cause.

The showing of probable cause in this case rests chiefly on the affidavit of one Hipsley, a paid informer who had assisted the police on…