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Show , Search and Seizure Amounts to Trespass MARQUETTE, Mich., April 22. Any search and seizure by federal prohibition prohi-bition agents that would amount to trespass under constitutional law is illegal, il-legal, Federal Judge Clarence W. Sessions Ses-sions stated during the trial of Scale-ucci Scale-ucci brothers, In connection with the Iron River "whisky rebellion." Judge Sessions, in his statement, cx-" cx-" pressed the opinion that the prohibition prohibi-tion act deals with conditions greatly difforent from those existing prior to national prohibition and that all provisions provi-sions of the revenue laws not consistent consist-ent with .present conditions must be set aside. "No evidence obtained by a federal prohibition agent by means of tr.es-pnss tr.es-pnss can be used In court," the judge said. j The court also held that any Indict-Iment Indict-Iment which charges only tho setting I up of a distilling apparatus and not I its use Is defective as far as that charge is concerned. |