Silva v. United State
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Oklahoma; Ralph E. Campbell, Judge. Criminal prosecution by the United States against John Silva. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff in error was the defendant in the District Court. He was indicted, arraigned, pleaded not guilty, tried, found guilty, and sentenced for introducing whisky into the Indian country previously known as Indian Territory.
The defendant was engaged in running a grocery store at Krebs, Okl., four miles from McAlester. A deputy United States marshal and a plain clothes man from McAlester, together with two other men, went to the defendant’s house and searched it for liquors, and there found in the cellar a jug partially idled with whisky, and about 3% dozen quart…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Chambliss v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1914
3Cited by2 opinions
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- Collier v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1915