Tynan v. United States

RUDKIN, Circuit Judge.

This is a writ of error to review a judgment of conviction under the Alaska Bone Dry Law (39 Stat. 903 [48 U.S.C.A. § 261 et seq.]). The assignments of error are directed against the jury as impaneled, against the information, and against testimony obtained through an unlawful search and seizure.

The jury trying the case was composed partly of women, and the plaintiff in error contends that he was entitled to a common-law jury, composed wholly of men. Section 9 *213of the Organic Act of the territory of Alaska (37 Stat. 514 [48 U.S.C.A. §§ 77-79]), provides that the…