United States v. McKee
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri
This is a civil action by the United States against William McKee, based upon section 3296 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, to recover the penalty of double the amount of taxes on distilled spirits, out of which the government alleges it was defrauded, by means of a conspiracy entered into for that purpose by the defendant and certain named distillers, for the unlawful removal by the distillers of said spirits without the payment of taxes.
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This is a civil action by the United States against William McKee, based upon section 3296 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, to recover the penalty of double the amount of taxes on distilled spirits, out of which the government alleges it was defrauded, by means of a conspiracy entered into for that purpose by the defendant and certain named distillers, for the unlawful removal by the distillers of said spirits without the payment of taxes. In these removals it is alleged that the defendant, McKee, aided and abetted. To this petition the defendant pleaded: First. That he had been…
1Opinion of the Court
MILLER, Circuit Justice.
This is a civil action brought by the government against William McKee, to recover the liability which section 3296 of the Revised Statutes denounces, of double the amount of taxes of which the United States has been defrauded by the unlawful removal of whiskey from the distilleries of divers persons, at different times, within this district.
The petition charges that in all these removals the defendant, in the language of the statute, aided and abetted.
To each and all of these charges defendant makes two defences.
1. That he has been indicted in this court, convicted,…
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