UNITED STATES v. ZAVALA

No. 173.

139 F.2d 830 (1944)

UNITED STATES v. ZAVALA.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

January 3, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry G. Herman, of New York City, for Antonio Zavala, defendant-appellant.

Harold M. Kennedy, U. S. Atty., of Brooklyn, N. Y. (Vine H. Smith, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before SWAN, AUGUSTUS N. HAND, and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The defendant, a native of Spain and Spanish subject who had lived for some seventeen years in Mexico, arrived at the port of New York from Lisbon, Portugal, on or about April 16, 1942, and presented a baggage declaration in which he omitted to state that he was bringing in any currency. One of the customs inspectors informed him that if he had anything which had not been noted in his declaration he could amend it and he thereupon...

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