Mills v. United States

PROCTOR, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents a question, often recurring, as to the admissibility of incriminating evidence seized from an accused when arrested without a warrant. It arises here in connection with the conviction of appellant for engaging in the operation of a numbers game and knowingly possessing numbers slips. 22 D.C.Code 1940, §§ 1501, 1502.

There is no question as to the governing principles of law. They have been clearly stated in United States v. Rabinowitz, 1950, 339 U.S. 56, 70 S.Ct. 430, 94 L.Ed. 653; Brinegar v. United States, 1949, 338 U.S. 160, 69 S.Ct. 1302, 93…