Legal Opinion

Murphy v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided March 8, 1930No. 8646PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

REEVES, District Judge.

The appellant was convicted on count 3 of an information in four counts, which charged' him with violations of the National Prohibition Act (27 USCA). In said third count it was charged that he made a sale of “about four bottles of near beer spiked with alcohol” on August 2, 1928.

The evidence on the part of the government tended to show that late in the evening of the day of the alleged sale one E. G. Stravos and wife, in company with J. H. Searles, a government agent, and Miss Luella Busby, a stenographer in the Prohibition Department, went to the place of business…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Feinberg v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1924
  2. Burns v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
  3. Rossi v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1925
  4. Dimmick v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1905
  5. Dawson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1926

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Boehm v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1941
  2. Johnson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1942
  3. Ayers v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1932
  4. Muench v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1938
  5. Vause v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1931

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