Schencks v. United States

SMITH, Acting Associate Justice.

On the 5th day of April, 1922, the United States commissioner for the District of Columbia issued a search warrant directing . Samuel L. Rakusin, a federal narcotic inspector, to make a search of premises occupied by Leon Schencks and Maude Briscoe, and to seize if found all opium, cocaine, coca leaves, and preparations and derivatives thereof, together with marked money as well as goods, wares, and merchandise subject to seizure under the infernal revenue laws of the United States. That warrant was issued on the affidavit of Samuel L. Rakusin and Robert A.…