Task: songer_trialpro

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals. You will be asked a question pertaining to issues that may appear in any civil law cases including civil government, civil private, and diversity cases. The issue is: "Did the court's ruling on procedure at trial favor the appellant?" This includes jury instructions and motions for directed verdicts made during trial. Answer the question based on the directionality of the appeals court decision. If the court discussed the issue in its opinion and answered the related question in the affirmative, answer "Yes". If the issue was discussed and the opinion answered the question negatively, answer "No". If the opinion considered the question but gave a mixed answer, supporting the respondent in part and supporting the appellant in part, answer "Mixed answer". If the opinion does not discuss the issue, or notes that a particular issue was raised by one of the litigants but the court dismissed the issue as frivolous or trivial or not worthy of discussion for some other reason, answer "Issue not discussed". If the opinion considered the question but gave a "mixed" answer, supporting the respondent in part and supporting the appellant in part (or if two issues treated separately by the court both fell within the area covered by one question and the court answered one question affirmatively and one negatively), answer "Mixed answer". If the opinion either did not consider or discuss the issue at all or if the opinion indicates that this issue was not worthy of consideration by the court of appeals even though it was discussed by the lower court or was raised in one of the briefs, answer "Issue not discussed".

THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a conviction and sentence -by the District Court for the District of New Jersey upon an indictment charging the defendant with transportation and possession of 215 gallons of distilled spirits, being intoxicating liquor containing more than one-half per cent, of alcohol and fit for use for beverage purposes. By agreement the case was tried before the District Judge without a jury.
The testimony showed that a police officer of Jersey City, while patrolling the Newark turnpike, noticed a truck, loaded with large packing eases, which aroused his suspicions. He stopped the truck, noticed that the license tags were not fastened securely, examined one of the cases, and found 45 five-gallon cans of alcohol. The alcohol tested 92.7 per cent, by volume, and was fit for bevei-age purposes. Defendant, the driver of the truck, testified that he had taken a load of lumber from New York to Newark; that he was hired by a stranger to take a load back to New York; that the truck was loaded in his absence; and that he had no knowledge that the load concealed alcohol. He testified that the truck did not belong to him.
It is undisputed that the seizure was made solely qn suspicion, and that, when the officer discovered the violation, he knew that the seizure would be turned over to the. federal authorities for prosecution. The defendant moved to suppress the evidence on the ground that there was no. probable cause for the search. That motion was denied, and the case went to the judge on the evidence without exception to the denial of the motion to suppress. The judge found the defendant guilty, and sentenced him to fine and imprisonment.
The defendant must be deemed to have abandoned his objections and have rested his ease upon the evidence. In the absence of manifest injustice, this court will not review, upon appeal, alleged erroneous rulings of the trial court to which no exceptions have boon taken. Bilboa v. United States (C. C. A.) 287 F. 125; Finley v. United States (C. C. A.) 256 F. 845. Wo think the evidence presented sustains the finding of the defendant’s guilt.
The judgment is affirmed.

Question: Did the court's ruling on procedure at trial favor the appellant? This includes jury instructions and motions for directed verdicts made during trial.
A. No
B. Yes
C. Mixed answer
D. Issue not discussed
Answer:

Answer: D