United States v. Three Copper Stills

This is a proceeding to condemn as forfeited three copper stills and distilling apparatus and thirty-three packages of apple brandy The proceedings seek to forfeit this property under sections 3257, 3281, 3289, and 3299, and the allegations of the information are sustained by the evidence. -The only question is whether or not the plea of the claimants, Jones and Chestnut, of a former conviction will bar the present proceedings, and release the property seized. The records of the proceedings under the indictments, which were tried in this court at Covington, show that the claimant Chestnut was…