Junior T. Chappell v. United States

BURGER, Circuit Judge:

The only issue on this appeal from conviction of robbery is the admissibility of evidence seized after police entered an apartment where appellant was arrested.

On July 28, 1968, at about 5:00 a.m. two passengers directed their taxicab driver to an alley near Fourteenth and Belmont Streets, N.W., where they robbed him of his watch, wallet, and contents of his pockets, and some loose change from a cigar box. The two men then left the cab and ran down the alley toward Chapin Street, one block north of Belmont. Within 10 minutes the taxi-driver reported the robbery over his…