Fuller Holt v. United States

This is an appeal from convictions for conspiracy and various substantive counts of “moonshining”.

Appellants’ principal contention is that the participation of a paid government informer in their illegal activities estops the government from prosecuting them. The record clearly establishes that the government agent did not seduce otherwise innocent persons to violate the law. See Park v. United States, 5 Cir., 1960, 283 F.2d 253. Rather, the informants’ participation in their illegal activities was at the behest of the defendants in each instance. What the government paid for, and what it…