Goddard v. United States

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

Clifford Goddard was convicted on six counts of an indictment charging violations of the revenue laws relating to intoxicating liquor. Upon this appeal from that judgment, he contends that the evidence against him was insufficient ta> support the verdict of the jury, and that the court below committed reversible error in two of its rulings upon the admissibility of evidence.

Two witnesses testified that Goddard had approached them with a proposal to locate an illicit distillery on their property; that they had seen him assisting in the construction of the still, and, on…