Jackson v. United States

District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals

Argued Oct. 13, 1958.

Decided Feb. 26, 1959.

District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1959-02-26

2 counsel of record

Relies on Draper v. United States

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1959-02-26

How this case has been cited

Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2007 · most notably Bouse v. Cameron (1966), United States v. McCracken (1974)

28 federal appellate · 5 state decisions

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¶1Mr. Robert E. Sher, Washington, D. C. (appointed by this court) for appellant.

¶2Mr. William A. Dougherty, Asst. U. S, Atty., with whom Messrs. Oliver Gaseh, U. S. Atty., and Carl W. Belcher, Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the brief, for appellee.

¶3Before Edgerton, Bazelon and Bastían, Circuit Judges.

¶4PER CURIAM.

¶5 Draper v. United States, 358 U.S. 307, 79 S.Ct. 329, 3 L.Ed.2d 327, requires us to hold that there was probable cause for appellant’s arrest without a warrant, that narcotics obtained from him by a search incidental to the arrest were rightly admitted in evidence against him, and tha ; his conviction must be affirmed.