Herson v. United States

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

The appellant, Simon Herson, was indicted in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia upon a charge of unlawfully possessing within the District a quantity of distilled spirits, to wit, 16J4 gallons of alcohol, the immediate containers of which did not then and there have affixed thereto a stamp or stamps denoting the quantity of distilled spirits contained therein and evidencing payment of all internal revenue taxes imposed on such spirits; contrary to the Liquor Taxing Act of 1934 (48 Stat. 313, § 201 [26 U.S.C.A. § 1152a]).

The defendant pleaded not guilty and the…