Billingsley v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan; Arthur J. Tuttle, Judge. Sherman Billingsley, Ora Billingsley, and Charles Clift were convicted of causing whisky to be transported from the state of Ohio into the state of Michigan, in violation of the Reed Amendment, and they separately bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
DONAHUE, Circuit Judge.
These case's were heard and submitted together. The plaintiffs in erro'r were jointly indicted for causing whisky to be transported from the state of Ohio into the state of Michigan, in violation of the Reed Amendment. The indictment contained 23 separate counts, each count charging a like offense upon different days. The jury found the defendants not guilty on the first-18 counts, and guilty on the nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-second and twenty-third counts. By the express terms of the statute of Michigan prohibiting the manufacture and sale of liquor as…
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