Word: leggers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Norris Case. Attorney-General Mitchell went before the Supreme Court of the U. S., and appealed the famed Norris liquor-conspiracy case. Alfred E. Norris, New York broker, had ordered liquor by telephone from a Philadelphia 'legger. A U. S. District Court found him, as purchaser, guilty of conspiracy with the 'legger because transportation was involved (TIME, Oct. 14). A Circuit Court of Appeals reversed this interpretation of the Dry law. Attorney-General Mitchell asked the Supreme Court to set aside the Circuit Court's ruling which, he said, "Has made the enforcement of Prohibition laws more...