Joyce v. United States

HUNT, Circuit Judge.

Joyce, plaintiff in error, to be called defendant, together with five others, was convicted of a conspiracy to violate the National Prohibition Act. Joyce brought writ of error to this court.

The defendant has argued that the evidence was not sufficient to justify conviction. But there was ample to require submission of the issues to the jury and to sustain the verdict. According to the witnesses for the prosecution, in the premises described as the Hillsdale Hotel, Nos. 47 and 51 Sixth street, was a long bar, divided by a partition running from the “barroom” to the south…