Tomplain v. United States

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, Walter Tomplain, Elexandre Mitchell, and Octave Calle, were convicted on an indictment, which, omitting formal parts, charged that they did “unlawfully, wilfully, knowingly, feloniously, and fraudulently import and bring into the United States contrary to law, certain merchandise consisting of 226 Sacks, twelve bottles each, of Whiskey; 76 five gallon tms of Alcohol, and 28 Cases of Alcohol, consisting of two five gallon tins each, which said merchandise was clandestinely introduced into the United States from Mexico without payment of duties thereon. * * * ”

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