Goldstein v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Abraham Goldstein was convicted of unlawfully selling intoxicating liquor to soldiers in uniform, and he brings error. Writ of error to review sentence .pronounced upon the defendant, who was found guilty upon three counts of an indictment charging him with unlawfully selling intoxicating liquor to soldiers in uniform.
1Opinion of the Court
EVAN A. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
[1] It is claimed by defendant that the government failed to prove venue. We reject this contention, because it was shown that the offense was committed in Rockford, and inferentially that the Rockford referred to was in the state of Illinois. The court properly took judicial notice of the fact that Rockford, Ill., is in the Northern district, western division, state of Illinois. Hoyt v. Russell, 117 U. S. 401, 6 Sup. Ct. 881, 29 L. Ed. 914.
[2] Defendant also complains because the testimony fails to show that the soldiers were, at the times when whisky was sold…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Grimm v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- Goode v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- Voves v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1918
- Hoyt v. RussellSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
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- State v. ParrMontana Supreme Court · 1955
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