United States v. Palma
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Prosecution by the United States against Anthony Palma. On defendant’s motion to quash a search warrant and suppress evidence obtained by a federal agent.
1Opinion of the Court
BREWSTER, District Judge.
[1] In this case there was a search and seizure by federal prohibition agents in a dwelling house, which was conceded to be the private dwelling of the defendant. It was not used in part for a store, shop, saloon, restaurant, hotel, or boarding house. In the cellar of this house the officers seized one 300-gallon still, one 175-gallon still, one 100-gallon still, 12 200-gallon tanks, 1,200 gallons, more or less, of mash, and 90 gallons, more or less, of alcohol.
The affidavit of the prohibition agent, upon which the warrant was issued, was as follows:
“That on April 25,…
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