United States v. Nichols

JOHN E. MILLER, District Judge.

On December 7, 1949, Mrs. I. J. Weston appeared before the United States Commissioner at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and executed an affidavit for the issuance of a search warrant, which affidavit reads in part as follows: “I, the .affiant, Mrs. I. J. Weston, hereby state on oath that I was on Nov. 16, 1949, late in the afternoon I was at this said Nichols home, went inside thereof with my husband, I saw Mrs. Lillian Nichols pour out .from a gallon jug a half pint of non tax paid whiskey and gave same to my husband and he paid her for same; this jug she took from…