Amos v. United States

The plaintiff in error, whom we shall designate 'defendant as he was in the court below, was tried on an indictment containing six counts. He was found not guilty on the-first four counts, but guilty on the fifth, which charged him with having removed whisky on which the revenue tax had not been paid to a place other than a Government warehouse, and also on the sixth, which charged him with having concealed whisky on which the tax required by law had not been paid,

After the jury was sworn, but before any evidence was offered, the defendant presented to the court a petition,' duly sworn to by…