Case Name: LOWERY v. UNITED STATES
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1943-04-27
Citations: 135 F.2d 626
Docket Number: No. 10211
Parties: LOWERY v. UNITED STATES.
Judges: Before GARRECHT, HANEY, and HEALY, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 135
Pages: 626–626

Head Matter:
LOWERY v. UNITED STATES.
No. 10211.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
April 27, 1943.
Albert D. Rosellini, of Seattle, Wash., for appellant.
J. Charles Dennis, U. S. Atty., and G. D. Hile, Asst. U. S. Attorney, both of Seattle, Wash., for appellee.
Before GARRECHT, HANEY, and HEALY, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Appellant was convicted of a violation of the Narcotic Drugs Act, 21 U.S.C.A. § 174. His sole contention is that the evidence against him was obtained by an unlawful search and seizure in violation of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution.
Appellant was intercepted by the federal officers as he disembarked from a plane and was about to enter a bus; and a bag was taken from him containing a number of tins of opium. The officers had no search warrant. It is clear from the showing made on the motion to suppress that the officers were in possession of facts sufficient to lead a reasonably discreet and prudent person to believe that appellant was unlawfully in possession of narcotics. The judgment is accordingly affirmed on the authority of Carroll v. United States, 267 U.S. 132, 45 S.Ct. 280, 69 L.Ed. 543, 39 A.L.R. 790, and Husty v. United States, 282 U.S. 694, 51 S.Ct. 240, 75 L.Ed. 629, 74 A.L.R. 1407.