CORNELI v. MOORE

Nos. 174, 175, 428, 548.

257 U.S. 491 (1922)

CORNELI v. MOORE, COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE. GHIO v. MOORE, COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE. BRYAN v. MILES, COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND, ET AL. EASTES v. CRUTCHLEY, COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE FOR THE SIXTH DISTRICT OF MISSOURI, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 30, 1922.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Elliott W. Major and Mr. Glendy B. Arnold for appellants in Nos. 174, 175, and 548. Mr. John T. Barker was also on the brief in No. 548.

Mr. Julian S. Jones and Mr. J. Wallace Bryan, with whom Mr. James T. O'Neill, Mr. Glendy B. Arnold and Mr. Elliott W. Major were on the briefs, for appellant in No. 428.

Mr. Solicitor General Beck and Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General, for appellees.

Mr. Wayne B. Wheeler, by leave of court, filed a brief as amicus curiae.


MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the court.

These cases, though having different parties and coming from different courts, are dependent upon the same considerations. They differ in some details but they all involve the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and its assistant legislation, the National Prohibition Act.

The Amendment after its ratification prohibited for beverage purposes, among other things, the transportation...

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