Edwards v. United States

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

In this case the plaintiff in error, W. M. Edwards, called hereafter the defendant in this opinion, was indicted, tried, and convicted of offenses committed on or about July 24, 1920, and described in eight counts of his indictment. The first five counts were for violations of the revenue laws of the United States which had been superseded and repealed by the Volstead Act, which was in force at the time of the offenses charged to have been committed. 41 Stat. 305, 307, 318, title 2, § 35 (Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1923, § 10138½v); United States v. Yuginovich, 256 U. S. 450,…