Green v. United States

WILBUR, Circuit Judge.

While this case has been pending on appeal, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States has been repealed by the adoption of the Twenty-First Amendment thereto. In our opinion, the adoption of the Twenty-First Amendment requires the reversal of the judgment for the reasons which will now be stated.

We take judicial notice of the President’s proclamation that the thirty-sixth state at its constitutional convention held December 5th ratified the Twenty-First Amendment which by its terms repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Dillon v.…