Samuel J. Hanna v. United States

HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

Convicted of housebreaking and larceny in this District, the appellant Hanna grounds this appeal on the refusal of the District Court to suppress certain evi dence; to wit, a quantity of money seized by Maryland police officers in a predawn search of a motel room occupied by appellant. Part of the hoard, paper money, was found under the sheets of the bed occupied by Hanna. The rest of the money, in coins, was found in a bag under his bed.

The search was admittedly without warrant. We need not examine most areas of the large body of authoritative rulings limiting very…