Jackson v. United States

QUINN, Associate Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of petit larceny.1 On appeal he contends (1) that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict; (2) that the court erred in denying his motion to suppress items of evidence on the ground that they were obtained as the result of a search incident to an illegal arrest; and (3) that the court should have excluded certain exhibits as irrelevant. The facts were these:

Appellant was employed by a local pharmacy for about a week in January 1958. On January 7 he reported to work between 5:00 and 6:00 p. m. and was told that he had been…