Legal Opinion
The Muriel E. Winters
District Court, S.D. Texas
Decided June 4, 1925No. 1220PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, District Judge.
This is a libel of information against the Muriel E. Winters, seized off the coast of Galveston, January 6, 1924, with a cargo of intoxicating liquors, most of which was packed six bottles to the package and sewn up in burlap sacks. She was well within the 12-mile limit at the time she was seized, but there is no proof that she ever came within the 3-mile limit, and the proof is overwhelming that she had been outside of the 12-mile limit, and had only come in where she was seized for protection against a heavy norther then blowing.
The captain and mate of the Winters…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Church v. HubbartSupreme Court of the United States · 1804
- United States v. BengocheaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1922
- United States v. 1,250 Cases of Intoxicating LiquorsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1923
- The Grace & RubyDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1922
- United States v. 1,250 Cases of LiquorDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1922
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3Cited by4 opinions
- United States v. Robert Morris Postal, Salem L. Forsythe, and George A. ChittyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
- United States v. The CherieDistrict Court, D. Maine · 1926
- Ducos v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1926
- The Sea HawkDistrict Court, S.D. Texas · 1930