United States v. DiBella

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The first count upon which the defendant was convicted charged that he had had in his possession, custody, and control a still which had not been registered by filing quadruplicate written statements with the proper prohibition administrator. The fourth count charged that he maintained a nuisance in the place where the still was found. The defendant was arrested while alone in a room, tending a still in which alcohol was being made, in the lower story of a house in Jamaica, Long Island. The still had a capacity of 1,000 gallons, a furnace was burning in the cellar, and…