Shelp v. United States

HAWLEY, District Judge.

This appeal is taken from a judgment of the district court of Alaska upon the conviction of the plaintiffs in error (hereafter designated as “defendants”) of the crime of unlawfully selling intoxicating liquor. There are several assignments of error urged by counsel as being sufficient to justify a reversal of the judgment.

1. It is claimed by the defendants that the indictment is fatally defective because it does not negative the exceptions contained in the statute. The language of the indictment, in so far as it relates to this objection, is that the defendants “did…