Shaw v. United States

HOLMES, District Judge.

The appellants and 17 others were indicted on six counts for conspiracy to violate the National Prohibition Act (27 USCA). Some of the defendants pleaded guilty, six were acquitted, and nine convicted by a jury. Among those convicted were the appellants, the others having accepted the sentence imposed. The allegations of the indictment and the evidence were to the t3ffect that one of the defendants was sheriff of Shelby county, Ala., and some of the others were his deputies, and that all of them entered into a conspiracy with manufacturers and dealers in illicit liquor…