Hunter v. United States

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, George Hunter, was. convicted upon an indictment which in separate-counts charged him with the unlawful transportation, without the permit required by law, and with the sale, on March 29, 1932, of intoxicating liquor, to wit, a half-gallon of whisky, for beverage purposes; in violation of the National Prohibition Act (27 USCA § 12).

For proof of its ease the government relied on the testimony of Arthur Satterfield, a prohibition agent, and of one Virgil White, whom he had hired generally to buy whisky for the purpose of getting up evidence against the…