Pittman v. United States

KENYON, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was tried and convicted on both counts of an information which charged, in the first count, an unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor, and, in the second, the maintenance of a common nuisance at a certain building used as a hotel in Taney county, Mo., by conducting a place where whisky unlawfully was possessed, kept, and sold in violation of the National Prohibition Act (27 USCA § 1 et seq.).

The evidence introduced by the government was that one R. R. Lashbrook, who was a federal prohibition agent working under the deputy prohibition administrator of the Western…