United States v. Brunett

OTIS, District Judge.

I. The Indictment.

A grand jury in the St. Joseph division on September 23, 1931, returned an indictment in thirty counts charging defendants with various offenses against the National Prohibition Act (27 USCA). Prior to trial, the government dismissed counts IV, VIII, XII, XVI, XX, XXIV, XXV, XXIX, and XXX. The twenty-one remaining counts are in seven groups, the first consisting of counts I, II, and III, the second of counts V, VI, and VII, the third of counts IX, X, and XI, the fourth of counts XIII, XIV, and XV, the fifth of counts XVII, XVIII, and XIX, the sixth of…