United States v. One Buick Sedan

GRONER, Associate Justice.

The question we have to decide is whether an automobile seized by prohibition agents, but where no arrest of the driver can be made, may be forfeited under section 3450, Revised Statutes (26 USCA § 1181), if it was being used for the purpose of transporting and concealing intoxicating liquors on which the tax is due and unpaid. The facts are these:

Prohibition agents, stationed at a point near the District line, observed an automobile approaching at a high rate of speed. They followed but lost sight of the car in a bend of the road. Later they discovered it standing…