Kanellos v. United States

WOODS, Circuit Judge.

Defendant, Louis Kanellos, was convicted of having in his possession and transporting intoxicating liquor. The conviction rested entirely on the evidence of a state constable; who testified that without a search warrant and against defendant’s protest he searched the pockets of defendant’s automobile and found two quarts of whisky. No federal officer participated in the search. There is not a particle of evidence that the search and seizure was under arrangement with a federal officer or in the enforcement of a federal law. The state of South Carolina has its own liquor…