May v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. Joseph G. May and others were convicted of defrauding or attempting to defraud the United States of the tax on colored oleomargarine, and they bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
WILLARD, District Judge.
[1,] The plaintiffs in error, Thompson, Taylor, and Joseph G. May, were convicted in the court below of a violation of section 17 of the Oleomargarine Act (Act Aug. 2, 1886, c. 840, 24 Stat. 212 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 2234]). The case made by the evidence was like this: Several persons under the name of the Clayton Creamery were, during the summer and fall of 1910, engaged in business at 809 West Twelfth street, Kansas City, Mo. One of their number had a license to do business as a retail dealer in oleomargarine. They employed persons to travel over certain routes…
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