Nolan E. Patenotte v. United States

JOHN R. BROWN, Cii'cuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of forfeiture of a “1956 International Tractor, Aluminum Trailmobile Refrigerated Trailer, 150 100-Pound Sacks of No. 2 Rye, 1364 One-Gallon Glass Jugs in Cartons, and 37 100-Pound Sacks of Cerelose 53 (Corn Sugar).” The libel was brought under Sections 7301 and 7302, Int.Rev.Code of 1954, 26 U.S.C.A. 1

Appellant raises two questions for our consideration by his contentions that his truck was the subject of an unlawful search by officers, and that the Government has not sustained its burden of showing that these goods were…