Didenti v. United States

WEBSTER, District Judge.

Appellant Didenti, John Huggler, and Jack Esara were charged by indictment with conspiring together, and “with sundry and divers other persons to the grand jurors unknown,” to violate the National Prohibition Act, by manufacturing, possessing, transporting, and selling intoxicating liquor. Six separate overt acts are alleged, in the commission of all of which it is charged the appellant participated. Upon trial the jury acquitted Huggler and Esara, but convicted Didenti, who brings the case here for review, assigning as error the refusal of the trial court to grant his…