Wilkins v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of 'Pennsylvania.
1Opinion of the Court
BUFFINGTON, District Judge.
This is a writ of error sued out by the defendant to review the case of U. S. v. Wilkins in the district court for the Eastern district of Pennsylvania. When the case was called for trial, defendant’s demurrer to the indictment was overruled, and thereafter he was convicted, and sentence imposed. The overruling of such demurrer is here assigned for error.
We will first examine the third count, for, if it is sustained, sentence was lawfully imposed. By section 6 of an act of congress approved August 2, 1886, entitled “An act defining butter, also imposing a tax upon…
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