RULER v. UNITED STATES

No. 8940.

47 F.2d 1070 (1931)

RULER v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 24, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. J. Hoolan, of St. Louis, Mo., for appellant.

Louis H. Breuer, U. S. Atty., of Rolla, Mo., and Arthur A. Hapke, Asst. U. S. Atty., of St. Louis, Mo.

Before STONE and GARDNER, Circuit Judges, and WOODROUGH, District Judge.


STONE, Circuit Judge.

On a plea of guilty to one count of an indictment charging sale of intoxicants on January 18, 1930, appellant was sentenced to a fine and to a sentence of a year and a day in the penitentiary at Leavenworth. From that judgment he appeals.

The first matter presented here is the validity of the so-called Jones Act (45 Stat. 1446 [27 USCA §§ 91, 92]). This validity is challenged on the grounds that the act is "vague and uncertain...

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