United States v. Lorenz

BOURQUIN, District Judge.

These are motions for new trials. The defendants were convicted and sentenced for violations of the Prohibition Act (Comp. St. § 1013814 et seq.). They moved to suppress evidence and objected to its introduction, on the ground that it had been obtained by unlawful search and seizure, contrary to their rights secured by the federal Constitution.

In Lorenz’s Case, the evidence is that a prohibition agent and police, on information and without warrants, approached certain premises ostensibly fitted as a dwelling house; that the odor of mash and intoxicating liquor was…