United States v. Illig

THOMSON, District Judge.

We have before us for consideration a motion to quash an information made by the United States attorney, charging the defendant with violation of the Volstead Act (41 Stat. 305), in nine separate counts. The information was drawn at a time in the early enforcement of the Volstead Act, when,'in an earnest effort to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment, other constitutional amendments and legal principles of basic importance seemed to have been overlooked. In order to intelligently pass upon the motion to quash, it is necessary to consider certain fundamental propositions,…