Baxter v. United States

Appellant was convicted of possessing whiskey in unstamped containers and concealing whiskey theretofore unlawfully removed, in violation of § 2803(a), I.R.C., and § 2913, I.R.C., 26 U.S.C.A. §§ 2803(a), 2913. A motion to suppress evidenc'e - was overruled. As this evidence was vital to conviction, the questions raised on the hearing in this court are the same as those presented on the motion to suppress.

Jury was waived and the case was tried to the court. The conceded facts are that at about one-thirty or two o’clock in the afternoon of September 29, 1948, officers of the Alcohol Tax Unit…