United States v. One Nash Coupé

ALSCHULER, sitting as District Judge.

The facts and the issues are fairly and sufficiently stated in the brief of counsel for the government, from which it appears that the claimant herein, Roberts, was indicted and convicted in the district court, and sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment in the penitentiary, for unlawfully dealing in morphine hydrochloride.

Upon the contention that this same drug had been unlawfully introduced into the United States without payment of the customs tax imposed thereon, and that it had been transported in an automobile, an information of libel was filed to…