Brown v. United States

ROBB, Associate Justice.

Appellants, defendants below, were convicted and sentenced in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia under an indictment changing a conspiracy to violate the National Prohibition Act (Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1923, § 10138(4 et seq.), through the illegal transportation, possession and sale of intoxicating liquor. The facts, briefly stated, are substantially as follows:

In November of 1922 a man by the name of George McDonald was found dead at No. 2141 H Street, Northwest, in the city of Washington, and Policeman Donald V. Murphy investigated the circumstances of his…