United States v. Schullek

McVICAR, District Judge.

Federal prohibition agents by virtue of a search warrant in this case seized 1,042 pints of home brow beer, 4 gallons of wine, three-fourths gallon of wine, 6 barrels of wine, and 4 twenty-gallon crocks of beer mash. The government’s chemist at the preliminary hearing testified that the home brew beer had an alcoholic content of 3.74 per cent., and the wine from 12.46 per cent, to 13.08 per cent.

The petition of the defendants before the court is to quash the search warrant and to direct that the things seized be suppressed as evidence, for the reason that the…