Doyle v. United States

SYMES, District Judge.

Tbe plaintiffs in error, hereafter called defendants, were indicted and convicted in the Northern district of Oklahoma. The first count of the indictment charged a conspiracy to possess liquor unlawfully within the limits of the Indian Territory, and sets out five overt acts. The second to sixth counts of the indictment made substantive offenses of sale or possession out of the overt acts.

Both defendants were acquitted1 on the conspiracy count. Doyle was convicted upon the second count, to wit, possession, the third count, sale, the fourth count, possession, and the…