U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1934

Short v. United States

Short v. United States
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · Decided April 3, 1934
70 F.2d 105; 1934 U.S. App. LEXIS 4072 (Federal Reporter, Second Series)

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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