United States v. Specified Quantities of Intoxicating Liquors

(after stating the facts as above). Whether these prohibition matters are properly treated like revenue seizures, or whether eases like this, called by the amazing name of “common-law libels in rem,” are forbidden (United States v. Franzione, 286 F. 769, 52 App. D. C. 307) by the statute, are questions suggested but not raised by this record.

If the facts shown without contradiction on the motion herein had been proved at a trial, the libel would have been dismissed as of course; so the only real questions raised by this writ are these: (1) Can such a motion as this be made? or (2) Did the…