Jenkins v. United States

Appellants, with twenty others, were indicted in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of South Carolina. The indictment contained three counts, the first count charging a conspiracy to violate the provisions of the National Prohibition Act and the provisions of the Tariff Act; the second, with smuggling intoxicating liquors into the United States in violation of the Tariff Act (Tariff Act 1930, § 593 [19 USCA § 1593]); and, the third, with transporting intoxicating liquors in violation of the National Prohibition Act (title 2, § 3 [27 USCA § 12]). A nolle prosequi was entered as to the second count of the indictment.