United States v. Malt

CANT, District Judge.

In this case the question proposed by the government for solution was whether the person owning the property in question had assembled the same and was offering it for sale, with the intent that it should be used in the unlawful manufacture of intoxicating liquor. If the claim of the government in this- rc.speet was correct, the property should have been seized and confiscated and the owner punished. If not correct, the matter should have been so determined on the merits. Because of the very imperfect work done in connection with the attempted seizure, the court is…