Zimmerman v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. John Zimmerman was convicted of violating the National Prohibition Act, and he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
BAKER, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff in error was sentenced under an indictment in two counts, one for having in possession and the other for selling intoxicating liquor, in violation of sections 3 and 33 of title 2 of the National Prohibition Act commonly known as the Volstead Act, approved on October 28, 1919.1 Time of committing each offense was laid on the 16th day of January, 1920.
Section 21, title 3, of the Volstead Act, provides that the aforesaid sections “shall take effect and be in force from and after the day when the Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States goes…
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