Sugarman

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction under three counts of an indictment. The first count charged a conspiracy to violate the National Prohibition Act (27 USCA) by possessing and transporting intoxicating liquor in certain counties in Southern California; the second count charged a conspiracy to violate the Tariff Act of 1922 ( 42 Stat. 858 ) by the unlawful importation of intoxicating liquor into the United States, and the third count charged the unlawful importation of liquor info the United States without inspection and without the payment of duty thereon. A separate brief was filed on behalf of the appellant Williams, but we will consider the several specifications of error without particular regard to the party or parties by whom the specification is made.' The appellants challenge the sufficiency of the second count of the indictment and the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict, and also assign error in the admission of testimony, in the refusal of the court to strike certain testimony as against certain of the appellants, and in the refusal of certain requested instructions.

The overt acts charged in the first count of the indictment were made a…