Old Nick Williams Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. This was an indictment in the District Court of the Umted States for the Western District of North Carolina against the Old Nick Williams Company, a corporation which was authorized to carry on the business of a rectifier, and which was convicted of violating the second paragraph of § 3317 of the Revised Statutes by the verdict of a jury finding it guilty of carrying on thé business of a rectifier with intent…
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. This was an indictment in the District Court of the Umted States for the Western District of North Carolina against the Old Nick Williams Company, a corporation which was authorized to carry on the business of a rectifier, and which was convicted of violating the second paragraph of § 3317 of the Revised Statutes by the verdict of a jury finding it guilty of carrying on thé business of a rectifier with intent to defraud the United States of the tax on the spirits rectified by it. The verdict was rendered November 28, 1905, and…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
The rule has long been settled that “a writ of error is not brought, in the legal meaning of the term, until it is filed in the court which rendered the judgment. It is the filing of the writ that removes the recold from the inferior to the appellate court, and the penod of limitation prescribed by the act of Congress must be calculated accordingly.” Taney, C. J., in Brooks v. Norris, 11 How. 204; Polleys v. Black River Company, 113 U. S. 81; Credit Company v. Arkansas Central Railway, 128 U. S. 258; Farrar v. Churchill, 135 U. S. 609; Conboy v. Bank, 203 U. S. 141.
The same rule is applicable…
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