Voves v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the District. Court of the United States for the Western District of Wisconsin. Criminal prosecution by the United States against John M. Voves. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
BAKER, Circuit Judge.
Voves was convicted of selling liquor to an Indian In violation of section 2139, R. S. U. S. (29 Stat. 506). This offense is malum prohibitum; a criminal or wicked intent is not an element; and as the statute does not contain the word “knowingly,” or other of like import, the seller’s belief that the purchaser was not an Indian is immaterial. That the seller voluntarily made the sale is sufficient. Feeley v. United States, 236 Fed. 906, 150 C. C. A. 165.
In the present case there was testimony which the jury might have accepted as establishing the following facts: Voves…
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