Feigin v. United States
| Decision Date | 16 February 1925 |
| Docket Number | No. 4326.,4326. |
| Parties | FEIGIN v. UNITED STATES. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Ninth Circuit |
Frank E. Powers, Frank J. Hennessy, and John D. Harloe, all of San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff in error.
Sterling Carr, U. S. Atty., and T J. Sheridan, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of San Francisco, Cal.
Before GILBERT, HUNT, and RUDKIN, Circuit Judges.
Feigin was convicted of violation of the National Prohibition Act (Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1923, § 10138¼ et seq.), and sentenced to one year in the county jail and to pay a fine of $1,000, or, in default of the payment of the fine, that he be further imprisoned for a period of 6 months. By writ of error, review is sought.
The verdict found Feigin guilty on all four counts of the information. The first count charged willful and unlawful possession of certain described property designed for the manufacture of liquor; the second, that Feigin was unlawfully possessed of certain intoxicating liquor; the third, that Feigin then and there maintained a common nuisance, by keeping for sale certain intoxicating liquor; and the fourth charged the unlawful manufacture of certain intoxicating liquor.
The judgment is said to be erroneous, because it does not designate upon what counts of the information sentence was imposed, and that it may require an imprisonment of 18 months. But as the court had power to impose a fine of not more than $1,000 and to imprison for not more than one year under the nuisance count, and also had power to fine not more than $1,000 or to imprison not exceeding 6 months under the unlawful manufacture count, and as the evidence was ample to support the verdict of guilty of both counts, the sentence was not in excess of the maximum punishment that could be imposed in gross for violation of the offenses charged in those two counts. Abrams v. United States, 250 U. S. 616, 40 S. Ct. 17, 63 L. Ed. 1173; In re De Bara, 179 U. S. 316, 21 S. Ct. 110, 45 L. Ed. 207; Brinkman v. Morgan, 253 F. 554, 165 C. C. A. 223; Myers v. Morgan, 224 F. 413, 139 C. C. A. 641.
In view of what we have just said, the question of the sufficiency of the first count of the information becomes unimportant.
Error is assigned upon a ruling of the court permitting evidence respecting a former conviction of the defendant for violation of the prohibition law. It arose in this way: On cross-examination the district attorney asked defendant if he had ever "had any connection with the liquor...
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