Connie Andrew De Phillips v. United States

POPE, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was indicted for receiving, concealing and transporting 28.5 grams of heroin in violation of 21 U.S.C.A. § 174. Upon his trial by the court sitting without a jury, he was found guilty, and sentenced to a term of imprisonment. Upon this appeal his contentions relate solely to the admission in evidence of a quantity of heroin taken from his person by certain state narcotics officers which appellant asserts was illegally obtained by them following an illegal entry into appellant’s dwelling and in the course of an unlawful arrest.

Upon motion to suppress this…