Cecil Jones v. United States

DANAHER, Circuit Judge.

The Supreme Court held 1 that this appellant had “standing” to challenge the sufficiency of a search warrant, but re*382manded the case to the District Court to consider the contention, not previously there raised, that the search warrant had not been executed in conformity with the statute.2 The District Judge before whom the case had been tried conducted a hearing. He found as a fact and concluded as a matter of law that the warrant had been properly executed. The background for this appeal follows.

On August 21, 1957, Detective Di-done of the Narcotics Squad, Metropolitan…