Lund v. United States

KENYON, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff in error was tried on two informations, consolidated for the purpose of trial; one in two counts charging the sales of intoxicating liquor contrary to law on October 23 and 24, 1924, respectively. The other charged the maintenance of a common nuisance on October 25,1925, by keeping a place where intoxicating liquors were kept and sold in violation of law. Plaintiff in error was acquitted on the sale charges and convicted on the nuisance charge. A motion for arrest of judgment was filed, which raised for the first time the question that the information charged…