Grain Distillery No. 8 v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk; Edmund Waddill, Jr., Judge. Information by the United States a gainst Grain Distillery No. 8 of the Eastern Distillery Company. From a judgment of forfeiture, claimant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
GOFF, Circuit Judge.
The writ of error we are now to dispose of is prosecuted by the defendant below to a judgment rendered on the verdict of a jury, by which said defendant’s property was condemned as forfeited to the United States. The information alleged that such property had been duly seized by the collector of internal revenue, on the ground that the same had been forfeited for the reason that the defendant, being engaged in the business of a distiller, did unlawful!}' attempt to defraud the United States of the internal revenue tax on the spirits distilled by it; that it unlawfully…
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