United States v. Carlin

The facts in this case are in all substantial respects the same as those recited in the opinion by my brother Smith in the case of United States v. John Reid & Co., decided concurrently with the present case. It is therefore unnecessary to repeat the statement of facts or the arguments sustaining the conclusions in that case. As, however, the brief in the present case lays peculiar stress on the opinion of Attorney General Wickersham in Twenty-seventh Opinions Attorney General, page 228, it seems appropriate to make clear the distinction between the question there discussed and that presented…