Joe Kenneth Riddle v. United States

BRATTON, District Judge.

The appellant Joe Kenneth Riddle was indicted on two counts of possession and two counts of sale of illegal liquor, in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 5604(a) (1). He was tried to a jury and convicted of one count of possession and one count of sale.

The transaction from which the conviction stems occurred on January 3, 1969. On that day Robert Accord, an investigator for the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division of the Internal Revenue Service, went to the appellant’s home and said that he wanted to buy a gallon of whiskey.

Accord had met Riddle on December 28, 1968, when he…