UNITED STATES v. STUART

No. 6985.

67 F.2d 902 (1933)

UNITED STATES v. STUART.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 5, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. S. McCorquodale, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Houston, Tex.

Before BRYAN, SIBLEY, and HUTCHESON, Circuit Judges.


BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

This is a libel to forfeit an automobile seized by customs officers while there was concealed in it, in the course of transportation, intoxicating liquor which had "lately theretofore been unlawfully imported into the United States." Section 498, title 19 USCA, was indorsed on the back of the libel. The District Court on final hearing, although it held that under the evidence a case of forfeiture had been made out, dismissed the libel on the...

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