United States v. Fenton

BOURQUIN, District Judge.

Defendants were convicted of unlawfully transporting in an auto, some 130 quarts of whisky, the auto *222and whisky were adjudged forfeited to the United States, and defendants move for a new trial upon the ground 'that their arrest and the seizure of the whisky and car were without process, in violation of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, and unlawful; that the evidence at the trial was the whisky and tire testimony of the delinquent officers; and that defendants preserved their rights by motion before trial (heard at trial and decision reserved) for return of the whisky…