Belcher v. United States

MUNGER, District Judge.

Appellant was found guilty under three counts of an indictment, the first of which charged illegal possession on December 9, 1929, of intoxicating liquor; the second an illegal possession on December 4, 1929, alleged to be a second offense;' and the third charged him with maintaining a nuisance on February 4,1930, in a building where intoxicating liquor was sold. The defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in jail for six months.

Assignments of error allege that his motions for an instructed verdict on each count were erroneously overruled. There was evidence that there…