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- Title: Dowling v. United States
- Author : United States Court Of Appeals Fifth Circuit.
- Release Date : January 22, 1957
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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The appellants, Melvin Dowling, Hattie Knight, and Aubrey Rhoden, together with twenty-eight other named defendants, were indicted for conspiracy to violate the Internal Revenue laws with reference to the possession of unregistered stills and distilling apparatus; carrying on the business of a distiller without posting signs or giving bond; the making or fermenting of mash on unauthorized premises; the removal, concealment, possession, and transportation of nontaxpaid distilled spirits; the possession of property used or intended to be used for violation of the Internal Revenue laws; evasion of the distilled spirits tax; and carrying on the business of a wholesale and retail liquor dealer without posting signs or paying the special tax required by law. In addition, certain of the named defendants were also charged in ten counts with various substantive offenses involving violations of Section 7206, Internal Revenue Code of 1954. Prior to arraignment the government dismissed all of the substantive counts, and the fourteen defendants, including appellants, who pleaded not guilty went to trial before a jury and were found guilty of conspiracy as charged in Count 1 of the indictment.Dowling was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of two years and Rhoden and Hattie Knight were each sentenced to imprisonment for a term of one year and one day.
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