People v. Herbst

The defendant was convicted in the circuit court for the county of Bay on a charge of having unlawfully in his possession two quarts of whisky. The case is here on exceptions before sentence.

On the 21st day of February, 1923, the defendant brought two quarts of whisky to the Wenonah hotel in Bay City, Michigan, intending to deliver them to Joseph Groff, a bell boy, who had ordered them by telephone. From some source, not shown by the record, two Federal prohibition officers, Shamp and *55Post, received information of the intended delivery of the liquor. They went to the hotel, saw defendant and…