United States v. Ollie Gus Mathis

This is an appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Northeastern Division, denying the appellant’s motion to suppress evidence.

The evidence in question consisted of one hundred sixty-eight (168) gallons of non-tax-paid whiskey, which was found by a revenue agent in the car the appellant was driving, after a chase of about eight miles. This whiskey weighed about a ton and was stacked in the trunk and front and back seats of the car. In the chase the revenue agent bumped the rear of the appellant’s car several times, in an effort to get him…