Brasfield v. United States

GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs in error, with seven others, were, jointly indicted and charged with a conspiracy to re-’ eeive unlawfully from carriers, possess unlawfully, and unlawfully transport intoxicating liquors. The evidence in the case is not before us, but from instructions of the court to the jury, not excepted to, enough appears to indicate that there was no abuse of legal process in lodging a charge of conspiracy against the plaintiffs in error, and that there was evidence tending to show a conspiracy to introduce into the country a large quantity of intoxicating liquors,…