THE JOHN GRIFFIN


82 U.S. 29 (1872)

15 Wall. 29

THE JOHN GRIFFIN.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Donohue, for the appellant.

Mr. C.H. Hill, Assistant Attorney-General, contra.


Mr. Justice MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.

Upon the case as made out by the government, in the absence of any rebutting evidence, no court or jury, we think, could hesitate in finding that Downey had been guilty of aiding in the fraudulent introduction of the cigars without payment of duty. The case as thus made amounts to something more than the probable cause, which, by section seventy-one of the act of 1799,...

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