United States v. Windham
District Court, E.D. South Carolina
Jack Windham was indicted for violating the provisions for the enforcement of internal revenue taxes upon intoxicating liquors, and he moves to quash the indictment.
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, District Judge.
At the call of the case for trial, Mr. J. M. Spears, counsel for the defendant, moved that the indictment be quashed, on the ground that the acts charged in the indictment are alleged.to have been committed posterior to the 17th day of January, 1920, on which day the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and the statute of October 28, 1919 (chapter. 85), enforcing that amendment, took effect, and arguments of *377counsel have been heard. It appears upon the face of the indictment in this case that the unlawful acts charged were committed after the…
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