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FORD v. UNITED STATES

No. 312.

273 U.S. 593 (1927)

47 S.Ct. 531

71 L.Ed. 793

FORD ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 11, 1927.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. J. Harry Covington, Harold C. Faulkner, and Marion De Vries, with whom Messrs. Dean G. Acheson, George Roscoe Davis, and Louis V. Crowley were on the brief, for petitioners.

Solicitor General Mitchell, with whom Assistant Attorney General Willebrandt and Mr. John J. Byrne, Attorney in the Department of Justice, were on the brief, for the United States.

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

This is a review by certiorari of the conviction of George Ford, George Harris, J. Evelyn, Charles H. Belanger and Vincent Quartararo, of a conspiracy, contrary to § 37 of the Criminal Code, to violate the National Prohibition Act, Title II, § 3 and 29, c. 85, 41 Stat. 305, 308, 316, and the Tariff Act of 1922, § 593 (b), c. 356, 42 Stat. 858, 982....

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