Ledbetter v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
•ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OP IOAVA. This was' a writ of error to review the conviction of the plaintiff in error upon an indictment found against him by the grand jury for the Southern District of Iowa, April 28, 1896, for a violation of section'16 of the act of February 8,' 1875, c. 36, 18 Stat. 307, in carrying on the business of a retail dealer in liquors without the payment of the special tax required by law.
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•ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OP IOAVA. This was' a writ of error to review the conviction of the plaintiff in error upon an indictment found against him by the grand jury for the Southern District of Iowa, April 28, 1896, for a violation of section'16 of the act of February 8,' 1875, c. 36, 18 Stat. 307, in carrying on the business of a retail dealer in liquors without the payment of the special tax required by law. Defendant was convicted upon the first count in the indictment, which reads as follows: “The grand jurors of the United States of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
Defendant did not demur to the indictment,, nor move to quash, nor take advantage of its alleged insufficiency upon the trial, but after conviction moved in arrest of judgment upon the ground that it failed to aver with sufficient particularity the details of the offenóe, and the time and place of its commission.
1. The principal alleged defect in the indictment is set forth in the third, fourth and fifth assignments of error, which, charge that the indictment did not state facts which would constitute ah offence against the laws; in that it did not allege that the defendant sold or offered…
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