United States v. Caccamo

SWAIM, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from an order of the District. Court directing the summary return to Peter Caccamo, the owner, of an automobile seized by agents of the Alcohol Tax Unit. The automobile was seized on July 30, 1949. At the same time Caccamo was-arrested on charges of transporting and possessing distilled alcohol on which the tax had not been paid. The automobile was seized on the grounds that it had been used-in transporting and concealing non-tax paid alcohol.

The question presented is whether the District Court, which had found Caccamo not guilty in the criminal case, had…