Truman Reels and Clyde Vinson v. United States

The appellants were found guilty by jury verdict on an indictment ■charging unlawful transportation and .possession of liquor on which the tax had not been paid. There was ample ■substantial evidence to support the ver-dict.

The argument of appellants is ■that they were entrapped unlawfully by A. T. U. officials. In our judgment, the point is not well taken, as revealed by the evidence in the record. The fact that officers of the United States merely afford opportunities or facilities for the commission of an offense, although artifice and strategem may be employed to catch persons engaged in…