Jimmie O. Wooten v. United States

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction under 18 U.S.C.A. § 472, for one count of passing, uttering and selling three counterfeit twenty-dollar Federal Reserve Notes to Beecher E. Bowers and Thomas E. Garner, and for a second count of possession of twenty similar banknotes. We affirm.

The sole issue presented in this appeal is whether the appellant’s arrest without a warrant was illegal, so that the twenty counterfeit banknotes which were then seized and the appellant’s confession made shortly thereafter were inadmissible evidence. See Wong Sun v. United States, 371 U.S. 471, 83 S.Ct.…