United States v. Perlie Donald Workman

SPROUSE, Circuit Judge:

Appellant, Perlie Donald Workman, was sentenced on a guilty plea to five years imprisonment in May 1973 for possession of hon-tax-paid whiskey and an unregistered distillery. The district court suspended the sentence and placed Workman on probation for five years on the condition, among others, that he not violate the laws of the United States or North Carolina and that he pay in installments a fine of $4,000.00.

Some two and one-half years later, the local county sheriff found and destroyed an illegal distillery in the basement of Workman’s home and four months later…