Bucari v. Fili

JOHNSON, District Judge.

On November 30, 1939, a United States Commissioner issued a search warrant based upon the affidavit of Raymond Hartman, one of the above defendants. Hartman’s affidavit alleged that he had had a complaint that an illegal whiskey -still was being operated on certain premises, and further, he, Hartman, had on November 29, 1939, clearly detected an odor of fermenting or cooking whiskey mash emanating from the premises. The warrant authorized the search of “the premises known as Rogo Store & Dwelling, Old Forge, Lackawanna Co., Pa. and more particularly described as…