United States v. Thayer

FINNEGAN, Circuit Judge.

Thayer appeals from a jury’s verdict of guilty on the first and third counts 1 of an information charging three separate violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1154 (1946), 18 U.S.C.A. § 1154. Count one concerns his alleged sale of beer, on July 8, 1951, to four Indians, wards of the government, 2 under charge of an Indian superintendent and count three pertains to a sale of beer, on April 24, 1952, to still another Indian ward.

Among the several challenges leveled against his conviction, by defendant, are some peculiarly applicable to count one. He now cites various statements of…