James William Yawn v. United States

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, convicted below of conspiracy to violate the Internal Revenue Code by unlawfully possessing arid' controlling distilling apparatus and distilled spirits, and engaging in the business of á distiller without paying taxes thereon, is here insisting that a reversal is required principally because one of ten overt acts allegedly committed in furtherance of the conspiracy had been judicially determined against the Government and in favor of appellant in a former trial. Overt act November 9 of the one-count indictment was an allegation of joint possession by…