Moss v. United States

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is taken from the action of the District Court in overruling a motion of the defendant whereby he sought, on account of the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, to be discharged from a judgment or sentence of imprisonment for eighteen months for violation of the National Prohibition Act (27 USCA § 1 et seq.). On May 22, 1933, at a regular term of the court at Bryson City, N. C., the defendant pleaded guilty to an indictment in which he was charged with the violation of the National Prohibition Act by the unlawful manufacture, possession, and transportation of…