Hunter v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi; Edwin R. Holmes, Judge. Will Hunter, alias Will Turner, was convicted of an offense, and he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
CALL, District Judge.
This case was tried in the Southern district of Mississippi upon an indictment returned February 21, 1919, containing two counts. The first count charges the plaintiff in error with carrying on the business of a retail liquor dealer on the 17th day of February, 1919, without having paid the special tax required by law. The second count charges that the plaintiff in error on the same date did carry on the business of a retail liquor dealer, and through negligence fail to place and keep conspicuously in his place of business the stamp denoting the payment of the special tax…
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