Short v. United States

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Short v. United States, 70 F.2d 105 (4th Cir. 1934)
1934 U.S. App. LEXIS 4072

Short v. United States

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

Appellants were indicted for conspiracy to violate the provisions of the National Prohibition Act, and, from sentences imposed upon conviction, appealed to this court. The ease was pending on appeal at the time of the ratification of the Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution; and under the recent decision of the Supreme Court in United States v. Chambers and Gibson, 54 S. Ct. 434, 78 L. Ed. -, 89 A. L. R. 1510, the judgment of the court below must be reversed, and the case remanded, with direction to dismiss.

Reversed.

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