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263 F. 566

Docket No. 3329.

Devoto v. United States

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided March 4, 1920.)

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1920-03-04

<p>Internal revenue <®=»47 — Conviction oe illegal retail liquor dealer sustained BY EVIDENCE.</p> <p>Judgment of conviction for carrying on the business of retail liquor dealer without having paid the special tax therefor held sustained by the evidence.</p>

2 counsel of record

Relies on Bailey v. United States · Sodini v. United States

Affirmed · Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1920-03-04

¶1Internal revenue <®=»47 — Conviction oe illegal retail liquor dealer sustained BY EVIDENCE.

¶2Judgment of conviction for carrying on the business of retail liquor dealer without having paid the special tax therefor held sustained by the evidence.

¶3In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee; John E. McCall, Judge.

¶4Criminal prosecution by the United States against E. Devoto. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error.

¶5Affirmed.

¶6A. B. Galloway, of Memphis, Tenn., for plaintiff in error.

¶7Thos. J. Walsh, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Humboldt, Tenn.

¶8Before KNAPPEN, DENISON, and DONAHUE, Circuit Judges.

¶9*567PER CURIAM.

¶10This writ is brought to review conviction of plaintiff in error on a charge of carrying on the business of retail liquor dealer without having paid the special tax required by law. The only question raised is the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction.

¶11Plaintiff in error has defaulled for lack of brief under our rule 20, subdivision 1 (202 Fed. xiv, 118 C. C. A. xiv). No application is presented for further time in that regard. The government has filed its brief, and moves to dismiss under the rule.

¶12The record contains abundant testimony to sustain the conviction, under the rule announced by this court in Bailey v. United States, 259 Fed. 88, 92, — C. C. A.-, and applied in Sodini v. United States, 261 Fed. 913,-C. C, A.-, decided December 12, 1919. The substantial result is the same, whether the writ is dismissed or the judgment affirmed. Our action will take the latter form.

¶13Judgment affirmed.

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