Nounes v. United States

ROSTER, Circuit Judge.

An indictment in five counts was returned against plaintiffs in error, hereafter called the defendants, and five others. The first count charged a conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, to wit, to import and bring into the United States intoxicating liquor without submitting the same to customs inspection or payingthe duty thereon, and to receive, conceal, and sell said liquor after importation, in violation of section 593b, Tariff Act 1922 (Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1923, § 5841h13), and to import, possess, transport, and sell intoxicating liquor for…