United States v. Minery

CHATFIElD, District Judge.

The defendant has been brought into court on an information charging that on or about July 7, 1919, he did unlawfully and knowingly, “before the conclusion of the present war, and before the termination of demobilization, the date of which is to be hereafter determined and proclaimed by the President of the United States, sell distilled spirits, beer, wine, and other intoxicating malt and vinous liquors, for beverage purposes, the said distilled spirits,” etc-., “not being then and there sold for export, sacramental, medicinal, or other than beverage uses,” etc.,'…