Cantwell v. United States

MATPIEWS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was indicted for selling intoxicating liquor to an Indian ward of the United States (25 U.S.C.A. § 241), and, having been convicted and sentenced, prosecutes this appeal.

At the close of the government’s case and again at the conclusion of all the evidence, appellant moved the court for a directed verdict. The denial of that motion is assigned as error. The ground of the motion, if any, is not stated in the record. Examination of the record discloses no ground on which it could properly have been granted. The verdict is amply sustained by the evidence. The…