Lloyd v. United States

SUTTLE, District Judge:

Appellant and George Lamar Naz-worth were each convicted on three counts concerning the operation of an illegal distillery.1 The facts, viewed *1086most favorably to the government, are typically simple. Special Investigator Gazzola, of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division, along with various Florida Beverage Enforcement Agents, began surveillance of a recently discovered illegal distillery in the early morning hours of August 23, 1966. While concealed in the wooded area around the still, the agents saw two men approach the still, heard the banging of cans, and saw the men…