Brady Wilson, Bernard Wilson and Walter Russaw, Jr. v. United States

LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

The appellants and others were indicted by grand jury and charged with conspiracy 1 to commit offenses 2 against the United States in violation of the Internal Revenue Laws for activities relating to the establishment of a bootlegging business. The trial court held that there was insufficient evidence to warrant charging the jury as to certain offenses and limited its instructions to charges of conspiracy to carry on the business of a distiller, 26 U.S.C. § 5602; conspiracy to possess distilling apparatus, 26 U.S.C. § 5601; conspiracy to evade tax due on the whiskey, 26…