Willie A. Crawford v. United States

ALLRED, District Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of unlawfully acquiring marihuana without paying the tax thereon, in violation of 26 U.S.C.A. § 2593(a). He was sentenced to five years imprisonment and fined one dollar, after admitting his identity as a second offender, as charged in an information filed under section 2557 (b), of Title 26.

*209Two questions are presented on this appeal: First: Legality of a search of appellant’s home conducted by city officers without a search or arrest warrant. Second: whether certain incriminating statements made after arrest were voluntary.

The search…