United States v. Williamson

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, District Judge.

The defendants have filed a motion for a new trial in which nine grounds are set forth and urged upon the Court for the sustaining of the motion, all of which have been carefully considered but only one of which requires serious attention. This one relates to the Court’s charge in substance that a set-up still may exist although every item necessary to its operation is not at the moment present. Defendants urge that a new trial should be granted for the reason that defendants were not in possession of a still, or distilling apparatus, set up, within the…