Baron v. United States

DENISON, Circuit Judge.

Baron was a wholesale liquor dealer in Brooklyn, N. Y., who had procured due permits to purchase whisky in Pittsburgh and ship it to Brooklyn. He withdrew from a Pittsburgh distillery warehouse 500 cases — being five truck loads — and started the transportation. Barnett accompanied the trucks as guard. When they had reached Youngstown, Ohio, on their journey to Brooklyn, the whisky was seized, and Baron and Barnett, with others, were arrested. They were later indicted, with several others, and were charged in count 6 of the indictment with a conspiracy to violate the…