Jewett v. United States

DIETRICH, District Judge.

The plaintiffs in error, who will hereafter be referred to as the defendants, were convieted upon an indictment charging them with conspiracy to violate various provisions of the National Prohibition Act (Comp. St. § 10138% et seq.).

The first assignments raise the question of the sufficiency of the charge. The indictment sets forth clearly that on or about the 1st day of August, 1923, at the city of Seattle, the defendants willfully and unlawfully conspired together to violate the provisions of the National Prohibition Act; it being the plan, purpose, and object of…