Brown v. United States

DAVIS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on the verdict of a jury upon an indictment charging that the defendants “did willfully, knowingly, unlawfully and feloniously receive and conceal and facilitate the transportation and concealment of a quantity of narcotic drugs” fraudulently imported into the United States in violation of the “Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act,” 21 U.S.C.A. § 174.

The question raised' in this case concerns the propriety of the admission of evidence obtained in a search of a dwelling house authorized by an admittedly invalid search warrant.

On…