Evans v. United States

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

By an indictment filed in January, 1928, in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Tennessee, the appellants and others were charged with a conspiracy to violate provisions of the National Prohibition Act (27 USCA). In March, 1929, the appellants were arrested in the Southern district of Florida under a warrant issued by a United States commissioner of that district. In the preliminary hearing before the commissioner the government offered in evidence the indictment and the testimony of a witness. Upon the offer of testimony for the…