Shields v. United States

The question here for review is the/ judgment of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, of February 14, 1927. A petition for certiorari was filed in this Court February 28, 1927, and is this day granted. For reasons to be explained, we proceed at once to consider the case on its merits.

Shields, the petitioner, was indicted and tried with eight or nine others for conspiracy to violate the Prohibition Act, and also for direct violations of the Act. He was convicted of conspiracy and acquitted of the other charges. The case had been submitted to the jury, February 12, 1926. Before the court…