Young

By the indictment, Robert L. Young and nine others were charged with a conspiracy to violate the National Prohibition Act (27 USCA). Some of the defendants pleaded guilty, and upon trial the others were convicted. Young alone brings error and his one contention is the insufficiency of the evidence to connect him with the conspiracy, the existence of which is not questioned.

As alleged, the conspiracy was formed on or about September 1, 1926, and continued up to April 4, 1927, on which latter date a raid was made on what is referred to as the Abernathy Place, a few miles from Portland, Or., resulting in the seizure of a 400-gallon still, 4,000 gallons of mash, 23 gallons of whisky together with other properties, and the immediate arrest of some of the defendants. Young had, for about fifteen months prior thereto, been employed as the manager of one of the stores of the Pacific Supply Company, a wholesale and retail house in Portland, handling barrels, kegs, jugs, sugar, malt, syrups, pressure tanks, and other supplies more or less commonly used in the illicit liquor business. He was well acquainted with his codefendant, Roy Solem, who was the manager of a yeast company, having its…