Mason v. United States

PRITCHARD, Circuit Judge.

This is a writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Virginia whereby the plaintiff in error was sentenced to six mouths’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of $1,000 upon an indictment charging him with violations of section 31(59 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 2059). The plaintiff in error was, at the time stated in the indictment, a storekeeper and gauger employed at and in charge of a certain distillery near Belfield, known as “Distillery No. 11.”

The indictment contains five counts. There was a verdict of guilty,…