SHORT v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 4139, 4155.

91 F.2d 614 (1937)

SHORT et al. v. UNITED STATES. FENTRESS v. SAME.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

August 6, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. L. Broudy, of Norfolk, Va. (James M. Wolcott, M. R. Broudy, and James N. Garrett, all of Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for appellants Short and others.

Lester S. Parsons, of Norfolk, Va. (Venable, Miller, Pilcher and Parsons, of Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for appellant Fentress.

Sterling Hutcheson, U. S. Atty., of Norfolk, Va. (H. H. Holt, Jr., and Russell T. Bradford, Asst. U. S. Attys., both of Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for the United States.

Before PARKER, NORTHCOTT, and SOPER, Circuit Judges.


PARKER, Circuit Judge.

These appeals, which were heard together in this court, were taken by five persons, who, with fifteen others, were convicted and sentenced in the court below for the crime of conspiracy to remove and conceal distilled spirits upon which the tax had not been paid in violation of R.S. § 3296 (as amended, 26 U.S.C.A. § 1287), to defraud the United States of the tax on spirits distilled by them in violation of R.S. § 3257 (26 U.S...

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