Opinion
No. 26074.
March 17, 1969. Certiorari Denied May 26, 1969. See 89 S.Ct. 1772.
Carl E. Maye, McKee Maye, Robert H. Brown, Brown McMillan, Opelika, Ala., Knox M. McMillan, Auburn, Ala., for appellant.
Ben Hardeman, U.S. Atty., Jack Patterson, Asst. U.S. Atty., Montgomery, Ala., for appellee.
Before RIVES, BELL and DYER, Circuit Judges.
ON MOTION OF APPELLEE FOR SUMMARY AFFIRMANCE
The sole issue presented on this appeal is whether the appellant's assertion of his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination is a defense to a charge of possession of an unregistered distillery under 26 U.S.C. 5601(a)(1). That question has heretofore been answered by this Circuit in the negative.
See Thornburg v. United States, 406 F.2d 1060 [Feb. 4, 1969] (distillery); Hall v. United States, 407 F.2d 1320 [Jan. 30, 1969] (non-tax-paid whiskey); Grant v. United States, 407 F.2d 56 [Jan. 30, 1969] (wholesaling without license of non-tax-paid whiskey); Shoffeit v. United States, 5 Cir. 1968, 403 F.2d 991, cert. denied 393 U.S. 1084, 89 S.Ct. 868, 21 L.Ed.2d 777 Feb. 24, 1969 (No. 868) (whiskey containers); Anderson Southern v. United States, 5 Cir. 1968, 403 F.2d 206 (distillery, non-tax-paid whiskey, etc.); Brown v. United States, 5 Cir. 1968, 401 F.2d 769 (containers).
The motion is therefore granted and the judgment of conviction is affirmed.
See Fifth Circuit new Rule 19 adopted on December 6, 1968; compare Groendyke Transport, Inc. v. Davis, 5 Cir. 1969, 406 F.2d 1158 [Jan. 2, 1969].