Pales v. Paoli

BINGHAM, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of the federal District Court of Porto Rico dismissing a writ of habeas corpus and remanding the petitioner, appellant, to the custody of the respondent, the district jailer of San Juan.

There is substantially no dispute about-the facts out of which the controversy arises. It appears that the prohibition director of Porto Rico, on receiving information that a eon-*281signment of liquor was to be landed at a certain point on tbe coast of tbe island and was to be brought into San Juan by automobile over the Bayamon Road on the night of June 14,…