Miller v. United States

WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

Long before trial Miller filed a written motion in the District Court for a bill of particulars, reciting the substance of two counts of an indictment which charge, in usual form, that he violated the National Prohibition Aet (27 USCA) by possessing and transporting liquor on or about a named date, and divers dates thereafter, at a named place in the district, and averring that because of the “vagueness and indefiniteness of the charge” he was prevented from preparing his defense and would, should occasion arise, be precluded from pleading a former acquittal or…