Mattson v. United States

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

The defendant below, Mary Mattson, was tried and convicted under an information which, in its first count, charged her with unlawful possession on August 2, 1922, of intoxicating liquor at a residence in Fayal township in the county of St. Louis, Minn., and, in the second count, with the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor at the same place on July 26, 1922.

At the commencement of the trial, counsel for the defendant called the attention of the court to the fact that two separate offenses alleged to; have been committed at different times were charged, made a motion…