Occinto v. United States

STONE, Circuit Judge.

These are appeals from convictions for violations of the Internal Revenue Act (Rev. St. §§ 3266, 3281, 3282 [26 USCA §§ 291, 306, 307]) relating to distilled spirits. The indictment was against both of the defendants and in five counts. The first count charged the making of mash, fit for production of alcoholic spirits, in a barn in Douglas County, Neb., not being a duly authorized distillery; the second count covered the fermentation of the mash; the third count covered the separation of alcoholic spirits from fermented mash in the same place, the defendants not being…