United States v. Austin-Bagley Corporation

(after stating the facts as above).

The indictment is drawn with such prolixity and confusion that it is hard to understand the pleader’s meaning. It alleges that the accused conspired to violate the National Prohibition Act by making and selling alcohol fit for beverage purposes and specially denatured alcohol. That would scarcely be enough, but for the specifications, which allege that the plan was to sell specifically denatured alcohol as completely denatured, to persons not authorized to receive it, and to report the sales falsely. While it nowhere expressly appears that these sales were…