Howard Branklin Chapman v. United States

CAMERON, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Chapman was indicted and tried on a two count indictment charging him with willfully and knowingly possessing sugar and rye meal which were intended for use in the manufacture and production of nontaxpaid distilled spirits in violation of § 5686 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, 26 U.S. C.A. § 5686. 1 The jury acquitted him on the first count and convicted him on the second, and imposition of sentence was suspended for one year during which he was placed upon probation; from this judgment he prosecutes this appeal, assigning a large number of alleged…