Blair v. United States

FARIS, District Judge.

Appellants were each convicted upon trial, on an indictment having two counts for the possession of intoxicating liquor in the Indian country, and for possession of a still, contrary to the provisions of the National Prohibition Act (27 USCA), and sentenced to the penitentiary , and to pay certain fines. They have appealed in .the conventional mode.

The offenses occurred on a small, unnamed island in the Arkansas river, at a point some four miles south of Ponca City. At the locus in quo, the Arkansas river flows nearly due south, but with a slight southeasterly trend. At…