WYMAN v. UNITED STATES

No. 140.

263 U.S. 14 (1923)

WYMAN v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided October 22, 1923.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Otho S. Bowling, with whom Mr. Robert H. Elder was on the briefs, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Solicitor General Beck and Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General, appeared for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the Court.

Plaintiff in error was proceeded against by an information for the violation of a section of the National Prohibition Act.

A motion was made to dismiss the information on the ground that the crime charged was an infamous one within the meaning of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, in that by reason of the statutes of the United States and those of New York and New Jersey, the...

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