Steir v. United States

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in error was convicted, with three others, in the District Court of Massachusetts upon an indictment in which they were charged with the unlawful manufacture of intoxicating liquor. The ease is here upon a writ of error, in which the errors assigned are that the court below erred in overruling the motion of the plaintiff in error to direct a verdict of not guilty as to him, and also in refusing the defendant’s request to rule and instruct the jury that, on all the evidence, he was entitled to an acquittal; that he could not be convicted because of mere…