Weinstein v. United States

The matter in controversy in these actions arises out of an indictment charging the' defendants with selling “a certain contrivance, or machine, designed and intended for use in the unlawful manufacture of intoxicating liquor, to wit, one three-gallon still complete.”

*389The indictment is based primarily on section 18, title 2, of the National Prohibition Act (41 Stat. at Large, p. 313), which reads as follows :

“See. 18. It shall be unlawful to advertise, manufacture, sell or possess for sale any utensil, contrivance, machine, preparation, compound, tablet, substance, formula, direction, or…