Hoxie

Writ of error to review conviction of Hoxie for conspiracy to violate the National Prohibition Act ( 27 U.S.C.A. § 1 et seq.). The indictment charged that from June 12, 1923, to December 3, 1925, defendant and others were to furnish, purchase, and obtain intoxicating liquor in British Columbia for importation into Alaska; that they were to import and introduce intoxicating liquor into Alaska from British Columbia, and to transport, store, and sell intoxicating liquor in Alaska. Among overt acts charged were that at various times defendánts chartered and used certain named boats for the purpose of transportation of liquor from British Columbia to Alaska; that they imported liquor into Alaska, and stored and sold the imported • liquor; that Hoxie, through the B. M. Behrends Bank in Alaska, paid money to a codefendant for liquor sold to Hoxie for importation into Alaska.

We are again asked to hold that in Alaska a jury composed in part of women is not such as is guaranteed by the provisions of the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution. That question received our careful consideration in Tynan v. United States (C.C.A.) 297 F. 177 , certiorari denied 266 U.S. 604 , 45 S.Ct. 91 , 69…