Anderson v. United States

POSTER, Circuit Judge.

Appellant and two others, Son Simpson and J. A. Hoeker, the latter a colored woman, were convicted of carrying on the business of retail liquor dealers, without having paid the special tax therefor, as required by law, in violation of section 3242, R. S., as amended by the Act of Peb. 8, 1875 (26 USCA § 193). Appellant was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and to two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. He.is the only one before the court on this appeal.

Error is assigned to the overruling of a demurrer to the indictment. The indictment tracks the statute and is…