Maresca v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Henry F. Maresca and others were convicted under an indictment charging them with a violation of the provisions of various acts of Congress respecting distilled spirits, and bring error. This cause comes" here on writ of error to the District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Henry F. Maresca and others were convicted under an indictment charging them with a violation of the provisions of various acts of Congress respecting distilled spirits, and bring error. This cause comes" here on writ of error to the District Court for the Southern District of New York. The defendants were tried upon an indictment which was filed on February 10, 1920, and which charged them with a violation of the provisions of various acts of Congress respecting distilled spirits. The trial was…
1Opinion of the CourtRogers, Circuit Judge
(after staling the facts as above). [1] This case is one of considerable, importance not only to the defendants, because of the severe sentences imposed, but to the government, because of the questions raised as to the construction to be. given to certain acts of Congress for the violation of which the defendants have been' convicted. The District Judge who imposed the sentences was, of course, invested with sole discretion, without the limits fixed by the statutes, of determining the extent of the punishments to be inflicted, and in the discharge of that duty he was well aware that sentences *732…
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