Caldwell v. United States

NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, George Caldwell, was convicted at the April term, 1935, of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of West Virginia, at Charleston, upon an indictment charging a violation of section 3296, Revised Statutes of the United States (26 USCA § 404). The first count in the indictment charged appellant, who will be here referred to as the defendant, with removing, and aiding and abetting in the removal of certain distilled spirits, to wit, three pints, upon which the tax imposed by law had not been paid, from an unknown distillery to a…