Bevington v. United States

SANBORN, District Judge.

Marie Bevington entered a plea of guilty to the first eount of an indictment charging sale of intoxicating liquor in violation of the National Prohibition Act (c. 85, 41 Stat. 305 [see 27 USCA] ), with prior conviction. Her sentence was a fine of $323 and imprisonment in a county jail for 30 days.

The indictment against her originally contained two counts; the one to which she entered her plea; the other charging a nuisance and alleging two prior convictions. She made a motion to quash the indictment and to strike the reference to prior convictions contained in the…