Clarence C. Johnson v. United States

Appellant was found guilty of housebreaking and larceny. A pretrial motion to suppress the stolen goods as evidence was denied and was not renewed during trial. Appellant did not object to the admission of the stolen goods as evidence.

The grounds now asserted for reversal are that in another and later trial Walker, the complaining witness, testified “No, sir, I never made a complaint about him [Johnson] breaking into my place,” that when he signed the complaint he signed it in blank,1 and that a detective “must have typed it out” after the signing. However it is admitted that all of the…