United States v. Ray

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

MICHIE, District Judge.

The salient facts in this criminal prosecution are not complicated. Richard Eugene Ray, the defendant, lives in Rockingham County approximately three hundred yards from the site of an illegal distillery owned by a man named Shifflett. In the early morning of September 9, 1968 a man was seen by a Virginia ABC investigator carrying a sack over his shoulder down the wooded path leading from Ray’s house to the still. Fifteen minutes later, a man whose shape and profile were exactly like those of the man seen carrying the sack toward…