United States v. Robason

HOPKINS, District Judge.

The sole question presented here is the sufficiency of a Kansas statute attempting to make effective the United States statute prohibiting the transportation of intoxicating liquor into a dry state.

A jury was waived and the trial and case submitted to the Court for decision. The indictment charges that on or about November 26, 1940, the defendant imported about 125 pints of'whiskey from Nebraska into Kansas. The facts are substantially these:

Defendant stated that he had transported from Falls City, Nebraska, to h'is home in Rossville, Kansas, the liquor described in…