Ross v. United States

NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of West Virginia, sentencing appellant, Frank Ross, to imprisonment for 2 years in the Atlanta penitentiary. The defendant was charged with having, on the 4th day of April, 1929, sold intoxicating liquor in violation of the National Prohibition Act, as amended and supplemented by the Act of March 2, 1929 (chapter 473, §§ 1 and 2, 45 Stat. 1446 [27 USCA §§ 91, 92]) commonly known as the “Jones Aet.”

The evidence for the government was to the effect that a prohibition…