Fielder v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Oklahoma; Ralph E. Campbell, Judge. C. E. Fielder and Tom Ford were convicted of introducing liquor from without the state of Oklahoma into that part of the state which was formerly the Indian Territory, and they bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.-
The defendants below in this case were convicted of introducing liquor from without the state of Oklahoma into that part of the state which was formerly the Indian Territory in violation of Act March 1, 1895, c. 145, 28 Stat. 693, and each of them was sentenced to imprisonment in the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth for the period of 18 months and to pay a fine of $150.
[1] They complain of their trial on the grounds that the court charged the jury that “You, as men of affairs, of course understand that, without reference to this particular case, it is the…
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