Court Opinion

ID: 9842841
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 02:19:33.482534+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:13:57.622170
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JAMES ALGER FEE, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
I concur in the result reached in this opinion.
The search was not illegal, but clearly legal. There was a lawful search warrant issued by a state official, based upon the theft of a camera apparently already in the possession of the state officers. The authorization was for the seizure of articles supposed to have been stolen in burglaries. But under its authority photographic prints, possibly made through the use of the stolen camera, could have been taken by state officers. Additionally, the prints of money were illegal and contraband under Nevada law1 and could have been seized as evidence in connection with the alleged theft of a camera. A second ground is that the entry of the state officers into an office open to the public in order to serve a warrant of arrest was legal. This warrant of arrest was served and thereby an independent, valid ground of seizure of illegal articles in this office was laid. No dwelling house is involved. The fact that the articles lawfully seized were turned over to the federal government is immaterial.
The ground that there was no federal participation in the search, as held in the majority opinion, is likewise sound.
The trial court did not abuse its discretion in regulating the testimony of experts.
The instructions to the jury with regard to insanity were sufficient.
The judgment should be affirmed.

. Nev.Comp.Laws 1929, § 10364.