Romano v. United States

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

There are two counts to the indictment now said to charge the defendants below with the crime of violating the Tariff Act of 1922, § 593 (Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1923, §§ 5841hl2, 5841hl3). The first count charges that between December 1, 1924, and January 1, 1925, “in the waters of Long Island Sound, off Huntington and within Huntington Harbor, Suffolk county, Long Island, state and Eastern district of New York, *' * did unlawfully, fraudulently and knowingly import and bring into- the United States * * 9 upwards of 8,000 cases of whisky and champagne, the same being…