Whitcombe v. United States

DAVIS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon the verdict of a jury finding the defendants guilty in an indictment of six counts charging them with conspiracy, with having a still in their possession without registering it, with engaging in the business of distillers without notice to the proper government officer, with working in a distillery for the production of spirituous liquor upon which no sign bearing the words “Registered Distillery” was placed and kept, with engaging in the business of distillers with intent to defraud the United States of the tax on the…