Jones v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to ihe District Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee ; John E. McCall, Judge. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Sam Jones and Bennie Bryan. Judgment of conviction, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
DENISON, Circuit Judge.
Because the facts of this case, in some respects, resembled those of United States v. Gudger, 249 U. S. 373, 39 Sup. Ct. 323, 63 L. Ed. 653, pending in the Supreme Court when this was argued, we have withheld opinion until that case should be decided. It was disposed of by that court on April 14, 1919, but we do not find therein anything controlling the peculiar facts now involved.
The respondents were indicted for violating the' so-called Reed Amendment. Act March 3, 1917, c. 162, § 5, 39 Stat. 1069 (Comp. St. 1918, § 8739a). Tennessee is a state “the laws of which * *…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- United States v. GudgerSupreme Court of the United States · 1919
- Laughter v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1919
- Turner v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1919
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