Jefford v. United States

WOODROUGH, District Judge.

Appellant was convicted for violation of section 250, title 18, USCA, in that he received the sum of $50 from one Angelo Eontano, an habitual liquor law violator, as a consideration for not informing against the said Angelo Eontano as a violator of a law of the United States; that is to say, for not reporting to the proper enforcement officer of the United States that the said Angelo Eontano had violated, and was then and there violating, the National Prohibition Act, etc.

It is undisputed that the said Eontano did pay the accused the sum of $50 in the place of…