Brown v. United States

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in error,- hereinafter called the defendant, was indicted with George W. Hunt and John G. Sehlieff for violation of the National Prohibition Act (Comp. St. § 1013814 et seq.). The indictment contained three counts. The first count charged unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquor; the second, unlawful possession; and the third, importing and bringing into the United States “without the payment of the lawful revenues due the United States thereon, of certain merchandise, to wit, 150 cases containing in all 1,000 gallons, more or less, of alcohol.”

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