Benson v. United States

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in error, M. T. Benson, was convicted under a count of the indictment charging that he and two other named persons unlawfully concealed and facilitated the transportation and concealment, after importation, of 41 quarts of distilled spirits containing more than one-half of 1 per centum of alcohol which had been imported into the United States from Mexico without a permit having been issued therefor, as required by schedule 8 of the Tariff Act of 1922. 42 Stat. p. 897, § 1, par. 802; 42 Stat. 898, par. 813 (Comp. St. Supp. 1925, § 5841a); 42 Stat. p. 982,…