Wallace v. United States

DENISON, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in error was convicted upon an indictment charging him with bribing Taylor, a deputy United States marshal, to permit Wallace to bring intoxicating liquor into Tennessee in violation of the Reed Amendment (39 Stat. 1069 [Comp. St. ■1918, Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1919, § 8739a]). The case was a. compan*973ion one to those discussed in the opinions this day filed in the cases of Tuckerman et al., where the general facts are more fully stated.

Only two substantial questions arise here- which are not sufficiently discussed in some of the accompanying opinions. The…