Romeo v. United States

GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs in error, hereinafter ealled the defendants, were convicted under an indictment which charged them with a conspiracy to conduct and maintain a common nuisance at certain designated premises, by keeping, selling, etc., intoxicating liquors, and a conspiracy to unlawfully possess and sell intoxicating liquors, setting forth ten overt acts, alleged; to have been committed in pursuance thereof.

Error is assigned to the admission of the testimony of Whitney, prohibition agent, as to a conversation he had with Rossi concerning certain activities of the…