Robason v. United States

HUXMAN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, Jerome Frank Robason, was indicted in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, in an indictment which charged him with violating 27 U.S.C.A. §§ 221-228, commonly known as the Liquor Enforcement Act of 1936. The indictment charged that he transported whisky into the State of Kansas in violation of the Act, Kansas then being a state prohibiting the importation of intoxicating liquors (except for scientific, sacramental, medicinal or mechanical purposes) containing more than 4 per cent of alcohol by volume. A jury was waived and the case was…