United States v. Lefkowitz

The question is whether searches and seizures claimed by the Government to have been made as lawfully inci dent to the arrest of respondents on a warrant for conspiracy to violate the National Prohibition Act transgressed their rights under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.

January 12, 1931, a prohibition agent complained to a United States commissioner in the southern district'.of New York that commencing June 21, 1930, and continuing to the time of making the complaint Henry Miller (meaning respondent Lefkowitz), Jane Doe (meaning re7 spondent Paris), and another person called Richard Doe did…