United States v. Roy Mitchell Quinn and John Elton Whitlow

ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

Violation by appellants, Roy Mitchell Quinn and John Elton Whitlow, of the liquor provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. § 5686(a) — the unlawful possession of property intended to be, and actually, used in contravention of those provisions — was found by the jury upon ample evidence under a charge not erroneous, and so we affirm the conviction.

The amplitude of the proof demonstrates the soundness of the trial court’s judgment in denying peremptory acquittal, the first ground assigned for this appeal. Agents of the Alcohol Tobacco Tax Division,…