Haugsted v. United States

FEE, District Judge.

This appeal is prosecuted from a judgment of conviction against appellant. The indictment charged in count 1 that Haugsted “being then and there engaged in habitual violations of the National Prohibition Act” sold one pint of whisky on October 11,1932. The second count alleged in the same form a like sale on October 21st of the same year. Count 3 charged possession of one pint of whisky on the same date, and count 4 set up the maintenance of a common nuisance by him in the Palace Hotel. Appellant was convicted by a jury and was sentenced to fourteen months in the…