Hadley v. United States

ALSCHULER, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Hadley was convicted and sentenced under an indictment chai’ging him with unlawful possession and transporting of intoxicating liquors. Error is alleged in the overruling of Hadley’s motion to suppress the evidence obtained by search of his auto*376mobile, in which a large quantity of alcohol contained in gallon cans was being transported.

The federal agents had been credibly notified that intoxicating liquor was being transported into Burlington, Iowa, in an Oldsmobile coupé with a license plate of a given number of Wapello county, Iowa, over an Illinois federal…