Parks v. United States

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted upon four counts of an indictment charging: (1) The unlawful sale of distilled spirits in an unstamped container; (2) the concealment of tax unpaid liquor, with intent to defraud the United States; (3) carrying on the business of a retail liquor dealer without having paid the special tax; (4) possession of distilled spirits, the immediate container of which was not stamped. He was sentenced not separately upon each count, but generally, to a term of two years in the penitentiary. He appeals, making only one claim of error, that his motion for…