United States v. Howell

Boarman, J.,

(charging jury orally.) The facts admitted in this case preclude a dispute on any matter of importance on this trial. The defendant, a member of a large commercial firm in this city, makes the admissions, and the government submits the case on his admissions. *719He says he has no license as a wholesale liquor-dealer; that he is not in fact such a dealer, and he is not so in law unless his further admissions impose such a character upon him. He is a grocer merchant, but never sells liquor in small or large quantities. He says that B., living in the country, wrote him a letter telling…