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HEITLER v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 185-189.

260 U.S. 438 (1923)

43 S.Ct. 185

67 L.Ed. 338

HEITLER v. UNITED STATES. PERLMAN v. UNITED STATES. GREENBERG v. UNITED STATES. McCANN v. UNITED STATES. QUINN v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Motion to transfer to Circuit Court of Appeals submitted December 11, 1922.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Weymouth Kirkland and Mr. Robert N. Golding, for plaintiffs in error, in support of the motion.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

These were writs of error issued directly to the District Court under § 238 of the Judicial Code to review sentences of fine and imprisonment on the ground that they were cases in which the constitutionality of the National Prohibition Act, under which the convictions were had, was drawn in question. In addition to the constitutionality of the Prohibition Act, the assignments of error raised many questions...

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