United States v. Downing

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

Downing and Downey were convicted of conspiring to import from Canada a cargo of intoxicating liquor into the United States-at Buffalo. The evidence of the prosecution was that one, Devine, met Downing in Hamilton, Ontario, and agreed with him to bring a thousand eases of ale into the United States. Later he had a telephone talk with Downing, and arranged to have the ale brought in by some one else, as Devine was leaving Buffalo for a time. He thereupon posted a letter to one, Cullen, giving Downing’s name and address in Buffalo, and Cullen undertook the job, writing…