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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indicted Brewer Griesedieck, Missouri Beverage Inspector Charles Prather and Heber Nations, Missouri Labor Commissioner, brother of Gus Orvel Nations. Minor offenders were released. Prather pleaded guilty, said he received protection money from Griesedieck, split it with Heber Nations. Twice was Heber Nations tried, twice convicted. Twice the U. S. Court of Appeals upset the verdict, ordered a new trial. He is now waiting his third trial, Griesedieck his first...
Shrewd lawyer that she is, Mrs. Willebrandt continued silent last week, waited to answer Brother Gus in court. Points made during the week in her continuing articles on "The Inside of Prohibition" included...
...Picalas made 60 gals, of elderberry wine. It contained 5% alcohol. He drank some, was not intoxicated. U. S. agents seized him. A U. S. court in West Virginia convicted him of violating the Volstead Act, which specifically permits the manufacture of "non-intoxicating cider and fruit juice" for home use. Last week at Richmond the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the conviction, sent Sam Picalas and his elderberry wine back to West Virginia for retrial, with orders that a jury pass on whether or not this beverage was intoxicating in fact...
...effect of this decision, the first of its kind by an appellate court, was to transfer to the U. S. the burden of proving, not that home-made wine contains more than .5% alcohol but that it contains enough alcohol to make a person drunk and hence is outside the "non-intoxicating" clause of the Volstead Act and therefore illegal...
Significant was the decision not only for the U. S. Prohibition Unit but also for U. S. grape-growers, especially in California, who prepare legal grape juice for shipment to urban customers who, in turn, let it ferment naturally to wine. There was one catch: the court ruling covered only home-made wine from raw materials gathered on the homestead, not from materials purchased elsewhere...