Todd v. United States

HUTCHESON, District Judge.

In this case, upon the trial of an indictment joining three counts, one against Chevis, one against Todd, and one against Todd and Day jointly, Chevis was acquitted, and Todd and Day found guilty as charged.

The first count charged in substance that on the 8th day of October, 1929, at Tampa, Hillsborough county, Fla., one T. M. Chevis had in his unlawful possession one pint of whisky; the second that Pirl Todd did, on the same day and in the same place, have in his possession intoxicating liquors, to wit, 59 bottles of home-brew beer, containing one-half of 1 per…