Perry v. United States

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, Charles Perry, Charles L. Miller, J. C. Nichols, Eddie Satinover, Joe Capo, Hans Casperson, and William Odom, were convicted of conspiring to commit an offense against the United States. Error is assigned to the overruling of a demurrer to the indictment.

The indictment, in apt language, charges appellants, together with seventeen other named persons and parties unknown, with conspiring to import and bring into the United States intoxicating liquors containing more than onehhalf of 1 per cent, of alcohol by volume, for beverage purposes, by receiving the said…