Hodges v. United States

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

J. C. Hodges and L. R. Doyle were convicted and sentenced on two counts of an indictment, the first of which charged them with conspiracy to violate the National Prohibition Act (27 US CA), and the second of which charged them with the unlawful possession of liquor in Inxlian country contrary to the provisions of the Act of June 30, 1919, U. S. C. Tit. 25, § 244 (25 USCA § 244).

The evidence on the part of the government showed the following facts: That, on April 28, 1928, Ulous Pollan, a federal prohibition officer, in company with E. S. Kelley and Dan Fulsom, deputy…