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UNITED STATES v. SPRAGUE

No. 606.

282 U.S. 716 (1931)

51 S.Ct. 220

75 L.Ed. 640

UNITED STATES v. SPRAGUE ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 24, 1931.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Solicitor General Thacher, with whom Assistant Attorney General Youngquist and Messrs. Robert P. Reeder, John J. Byrne, Mahlon D. Kiefer, and Erwin N. Griswold were on the brief, for the United States.

Messrs. Julius Henry Cohen and Selden Bacon, with whom Messrs. Frederic M.P. Pearse, Daniel F. Cohalan, Kenneth E. Dayton, Leslie J. Tompkins, George H. Williams, and Burton A. Zorn were on the brief, for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The United States prosecutes this appeal from an order of the District Court (U.S.C., Tit. 18, § 682; Tit. 28, § 345) quashing an indictment which charged appellees with unlawful transportation and possession of intoxicating liquors in violation of § 3 of Title II of the National Prohibition Act (U.S.C., Tit. 27, § 12).

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