United States v. Ramsey

NEESE, District Judge.

The respective captioned defendants were convicted by juries of violating the federal' internal revenue liquor laws. Each conviction rests on the entrapping activities of J. S. (Stokes) French, a paid informer of the federal government. French, himself, was not produced by the prosecution as a witness although the defendants, in an informal pretrial conference, called on the prosecution to have-French present to testify on the trials, and themselves had caused subpoenas to> be issued for this informer. The prosecution relied on the testimony and other-evidence adduced by…