Sorrells v. United States

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, defendant in the court below and hereafter so designated in this opinion, was convicted of selling intoxicating liquor in violation of the National Prohibition Act (27 USCA), and was sentenced to a term of imprisonment. His assignments of error present two points for our consideration: (1) That the trial judge withdrew from the jury the defense of entrapment; and (2) that the judge admitted evidence oí’ a sale of liquor at a date subsequent to that charged in the indictment and constituting a separate and distinct offense.

On the question of entrapment, the…