Wood v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Richmond; Edmund Waddill, Jr., Judge. Criminal prosecution by- the United States against Clarence B. Wood, John M. Rhea, and Luther W. Williams. From a judgment of conviction, defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSE, District Judge.
The plaintiffs in error were the defendants below. They will be referred to as such. An indictment of 16 counts was returned against them and others. They demurred to each count. The demurrer was overruled. They here say that it should have been sustained. As they were convicted on the first and sixteenth counts only, it is unnecessary to consider the sufficiency of any of the others.
The first charged that on certain named dates at a specified locality in the district, they unlawfully did engage in and carry on the busi•ness of distillers with intent to defraud the United…
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