Sharp v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the District Court oí the United. States for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Rufus E. Foster, Judge. Randall Sharp and others were convicted, respectively, on various counts of an indictment, charging theft of alcohol from an interstate shipment and conspiracy to violate the National Prohibition Act (41 Stat. 305), and they bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
WARNER, Circuit Judge.
The nine plaintiffs in error were joined with other persons in an indictment containing five counts, which, respectively, charged that they stole 80 drums of ethyl alcohol from a specified railroad car while the same wras on the tracks of the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad, said alcohol then and there moving as and constituting part of an interstate shipment of freight, namely, a shipment of alcohol from a named shipper at New Orleans, La., to a named consignee at Kansas City, in the state of Missouri, via the Illinois Central Railroad Company; that they conspired to…
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