Faraone v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee; John E. McCall, Judge. Nick Faraone was convicted of carrying on the business of retail liquor dealer without having paid the special tax required therefor by federal law, and he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
HOLLISTER, District Judge.
The plaintiff in error, Nick Faraone, herein called defendant, was tried on an indictment charging that in 1917, at Memphis, Tenn., he “did carry on the business of a retail liquor dealer without having paid the special tax therefor, as required by law,” and was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment, and to pay a fine.
At the trial there was evidence tending to show that in September, 1917, J. W. Harris, of Savage, Miss., riding in his automobile to Memphis, purchased at defendant’s grocery at Memphis, from defendant himself a half pint of whisky, for which he paid…
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