Madden v. United States

DIETRICH, Circuit Judge.

The four plaintiffs in error were found guilty upon an indictment charging them and their several co-defendants with a conspiracy to violate criminal provisions of both the National Prohibition Act (Comp. St. § 1013814 et seq.) and of section 593 of the Tariff Act of 1922 (Comp. St. §§ 5841KL2, 5841hl3). Within the scope of the charge the evidence tends’to show that during the year 1924 they, with others, acting pursuant to a common understanding, purchased the steamship Principio, then at the port of San Pedro, and caused her to bo taken to Vancouver, in British…