United States v. Tynan

KHOX, District Judge.

An indictment has been filed in this court wherein it is charged that upon June 17, 1922, within the Southern district of New York, the defendant' William Tynan unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly, for the purpose of defrauding the United States, and with the intent to utter as true, possessed certain falsely made, forged, and counterfeited writings purporting to be prescriptions issued by various physicians, whose names were written thereon, for intoxicating liquors, under the provisions of the Volstead Act (Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1923, § 10138% et seq.), and its…