People v. Spaulding

I do not agree with Mr. Justice Bird in the result reached in this case. The record satisfies me, as it did the jury, that the shipment of these goods to Parma was camouflage, pure and simple,.so transparent as to deceive no one when the actual facts were developed. The jury found, and they were justified in finding, that these eight barrels and the one box of whisky were shipped by Morand Brothers at Chicago to defendant at Battle Creek, via Parma, with a fictitious consignee, and a fictitious point of consignment.

Defendant was not transporting liquor upon his own *59person or in his own…