Johnny Espinoza v. United States

Defendant (appellant here) was convicted in a trial before the District Court sitting without a jury of knowingly concealing and transporting narcotic drugs in violation of 21 U.S.C.A. § 174. He was sentenced to ten years. His conviction was based in part on the use in evidence of a quantity of narcotics found in his possession at the time of his arrest. Before trial, he moved to suppress that evidence, F.R.Crim.P. 41(e), 18 U.S.C.A., as having been secured through a search and seizure asserted to have been unlawful for two reasons. First, the arrest, to which the search and seizure was…