Legal Opinion
Collins v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 18, 1920No. 3470PublishedCited by 2 opinions
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Louisiana; George W. Jack, Judge. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Gould Collins. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
GRUBB, District Judge.
The plaintiff in error was convicted of a violation of the act of Congress, commonly known as the Reed Amendment of the Postal Appropriation Act of March 3, 1917 (Comp. St. 1918, Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1919, § 8739a). The indictment contained but one count, and it charged that the plaintiff in error and another—
“did unlawfully order and purchase a certain quantity of intoxicating liquors, to wit, ten cases of whisky, contained in pint and quart bottles, to be transported in interstate commerce from Monroe, in the state of Louisiana, into the state of Texas, in which said…
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