Powers v. United States

GRUBB, District Judge.

The two plaintiffs in error (hereafter called defendants), along with two others, who were acquitted, were indicted and convicted for conspiring to violate title 2 of the National Prohibition Act (U. S. Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1923, § 1013814 et seq.), by conspiring to possess unlawfully 1,000 quarts of Mexican tequila, in the first count of the indictment, and for concealing certain merchandise, to wit, 200 quarts of tequila, which had been smuggled into the United States from Mexico, knowing it to have been smuggled, in the second count of the indictment. Each count of…