Hester v. United States

The plaintiff in error, Hester, was convicted of concealing distilled spirits &c. under Rev. Stats., § 3296. The case is brought here directly from the District Court on the single ground that by refusing to exclude the testimony of two witnesses and to direct a verdict for the defendant, the plaintiff in error, the Court violated his rights under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments of the Constitution of the United States.

The witnesses wh©se testimony is objected to were revenue officers. In consequence of information they went toward the house of Hester’s-father, where the plaintiff in error…