BINGHAM, Circuit Judge.
The defendant, plaintiff in error, was tried and convicted in the federal District Court for Massachusetts on an indictment charging him, in different counts, with the illegal sale and unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor.
The defendant was the proprietor of a restaurant in Boston, and was known as "Highball John." On three different occasions in the fall of 1923, a prohibition agent was served with Scotch highballs at the defendant...
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