Schliefer v. United States

WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

Schliefer was indicted with nineteen others for conspiring, at a named time and place, to commit an offense against the United States (section 37 of tire Criminal Code [Comp. St. § 10201]), that is to. say, to unlawfully import into the United States intoxicating liquors for beverages purposes in the form of whiskey containing more than one-half of 1 per cent, of alcohol, in violation of the National Prohibition Act (Act of October 28, 1919, c. 85, 41 Stat. 305).

The overt acts pleaded were the participation by certain defendants in the loading of Scotch whiskey aboard a…