Bell v. United States

KING, Circuit Judge.

The information in the above-stated case contained two counts. The first charged the plaintiff in error, Bell, with a violation of the National Prohibition Act (41 Stat. 305), in transporting 15 gallons of intoxicating liquor for beverage purposes from Mt. Pleasant, Tex., to the Con Henderson farm, in Tarrant county. The second count charged him. with unlawfully having in his possession 15 gallons of whisky for beverage purposes, in violation of said act. Each count charged that said liquor did not come within any of the exceptions or exemptions of said act of Congress…