Beal v. United States

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

The appellant, Charles Beal, was indicted in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia upon a charge of feloniously and unlawfully possessing a certain quantity of distilled spirits, to wit, 51 half gallons of corn whisky, the immediate containers of which distilled spirits did not then and there have affixed thereto stamps denoting the quantity of spirits contained therein and evidencing payment of all internal revenue taxes imposed on such spirits; against the form of the statute in such case made and provided. His plea was not guilty. He was tried to the jury and…