UNITED STATES v. PECORARO

No. 49.

115 F.2d 245 (1940)

UNITED STATES v. PECORARO et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

November 4, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Halle, of New York City (Philip F. Halle, of New York City, on the brief), for appellants.

Harold M. Kennedy, of Brooklyn, N. Y. (Vine H. Smith, of Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel), for appellee.

Before L. HAND, SWAN, and AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

There is only one point in this case: whether the evidence was sufficient to support the verdict; and as to that the answer as to each appellant depends on different facts. An illicit still was discovered in operation on the farm of one, Herth, in Bellport, Long Island, and a number of the accused were proved to have been operating it. The question is whether the appellants were shown to have been engaged with the distillers in the undertaking. The evidence...

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