Kurczak v. United States

DENISON, Circuit Judge.

Kurezak, residing in Detroit, took his automobile across the Detroit river on the Detroit-Windsor ferry. Upon landing at Detroit on the return trip, a customs officer found in the car 48 bottles of whisky, and Kurezak was indicted on "two counts — the first for importing whisky without a permit, without paying duty and in violation of the National Prohibition Act; the second for concealing and transporting whisky which had been thus unlawfully imported. He was convicted on both counts; his sentence was within the limit proper on count 1; the questions presented as to…