The Counterfeit Strip Stamps

City police obtained a state search warrant for a man's home on an affidavit saying he kept intoxicating liquor and equipment for making it. The officer in charge asked a federal prohibition agent to come along, and the agent joined the search. No liquor was found. Instead the searchers found counterfeit federal 'strip' stamps of the kind placed on bottled whisky; the federal agent found some himself, and he kept all of them. The man was then prosecuted in federal court for unlawfully possessing counterfeit revenue stamps with intent to defraud. The warrant was not specific enough to satisfy federal standards. The defence objected that the stamps were the product of an unlawful search and seizure, and asked for them to be returned and kept out of evidence.