Templeton v. United States

HICKS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted upon three counts of an indictment which charged respectively, (1) that he had in his possession and under his control a still and distilling apparatus for the production of spirituous liquor without having given the required bond; (2) that he carried on the business of a distiller without having given bond; and (3) that he possessed whiskey intended for sale without the container having affixed thereto the required Internal Revenue tax stamps.

The Government’s principal witness, Ernest Key, a deputy sheriff of Sumner County, Tenn., testified that…