John Henry Shoffeitt v. United States

JOHNSON, District Judge:

These two cases were consolidated by order of this Court entered September 24, 1968. In No. 25490, Shoffeitt was convicted by a jury on one count of an indictment charging him with selling and possessing distilled spirits, the immediate containers not having affixed thereto the required tax stamps in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 5604(a) (1). In No. 26191, Shoffeitt was convicted by a jury on two counts of an indictment charging him with another violation of § 5604(a) (1) and with concealing nontaxpaid distilled spirits in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 5601(a) (12). No…