United States v. Shultz

SAMES, District Judge.

In each of these cases the prohibition officers, without permission and without search warrants, entered private dwellings and seized apparatus and materials for the distillation of alcoholic liquors.

In the Shultz case, the officers, while on a public street and on a vacant lot, detected odors- of mash from the defendant’s premises. After he entered his basement, the odor became more pronounced, and to quote one of the officers: “We decided to go in and find out if there was not a violation of the law there, and so we went in, and this mash was on the floor.” Mr. Shultz…