Moyer

Appellant and four others, defendants Jeffers, Pache, Grade, and Talbot, were indicted upon four counts, the first charging conspiracy “to commit in the said County of San Diego * * * an offense against the United States * * * , the offense being to * * * unlawfully import and bring into the United States contrary to law, from a foreign country, to wit: the Republic of Mexico, certain merchandise, * * * consisting of * * * intoxicating liquor, which said merchandise * * * would be, * * * unlawfully and knowingly imported * * * contrary to law, in that being then and there spirits and liqquors containing alcohol in excess of one-half of one per cent, by volume, the same would be then and there imported * * * without a permit having theretofore been issued therefor by the Director of Prohibition, Department of Justice, or the Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol, Treasury Department of the United States, or any other proper officer of the United States then and there authorized to issue such permits, and in that the same would not be or ever be entered at the custom house of the United States in this judicial and collection district or at any other custom house, * * * and without the…