Williams v. United States
Willie WILLIAMS v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee Estelle MURPHY v. United States
Opinion of the Court
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PER CURIAM.
Appellants were convicted of violations of the narcotics laws, and on appeal charge that the police lacked probable cause to arrest and, in the night season, illegally broke into the dwelling they occupied. Assuming arguendo that the record before us adequately establishes the existence of probable cause for the arrest of the appellant Murphy, the circumstances otherwise do not justify the officers in breaking in and entering her house without a warrant of any kind. The subsequent search was, therefore, illegal. We must reverse because the convictions were obtained by the use of evidence thus secured. We find ourselves unable to distinguish the situation developed here from that considered in Miller v. United States, 1958, 357 U.S. 301 , *523 78 S.Ct. 1190 , 2 L.Ed.2d 1332 , and see cases cited in Williams v. United States, 1959, 105 U.S.App.D.C. 41, 45 , 263 F.2d 487, 491 .
Reversed.
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