Opinion

United States v. William Brown and Henry Davis

  • 297 F.2d 828
  • 1962 U.S. App. LEXIS 6281
Court
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Filed
Jan 8, 1962
Status
Published
On the bench
Lumbard, Clark, Friendly
Cited by
0 cases

The opinion

PER CURIAM.

Appellant Davis was convicted on each of ten counts of substantive violations of 26 U.S.C. § 5604 (a) (1), 26 U.S.C. § 5205 (a), and 18 U.S.C. § 2 , and, under 18 U.S.C. § 371 , of conspiracy to violate those sections and 26 U.S.C. §§ 5121 and 5691. He was given concurrent sentences of 18 months on each of those counts. Appellant Brown was sentenced to imprisonment for 6 months on his conviction on the conspiracy count. Both waived jury trial and now appeal their convictions, arguing that there was insufficient evidence to make out a prima facie case as to either of them and that there was a fatal variance between indictment and proof on the conspiracy count in that a single conspiracy was alleged and at most the evidence tended to show two separate conspiracies.

We affirm the convictions in open court, holding both contentions to be wholly without support. There is ample evidence that Davis was the owner of a speakeasy, selling alcohol on which taxes had not been paid, that Brown was his chief lieutenant, and that they were engaged in a single conspiracy to conduct such an operation.

Affirmed.

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