Poleskey v. United States

Over his signature as United States district attorney, W. O. Potter, in the Eastern district of Illinois, filed information against plaintiff in error, charging, in separate counts, possession and- sale of intoxicating liquor and maintenance of a common nuisance in violation of the National Prohibition Act (Comp. St. Supp. 1923, § 1013814 et seq.). Erom the information it appeared that O. and R. M. Jones had made affidavit ’ of a sale to them by plaintiff in' enror of spirits containing more than one-half of 1 per cent, of alcohol by volume. The affidavit accompanied the information" "and was…