United States v. Riddle
This text of 9 U.S. 311 (United States v. Riddle) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of the United States primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
delivered the opinion of the court to the following effect:
The court thinks this case too plain to admit of argument, or to require deliberation.. It is not within even the letter of the Jaw, and it is certainly not within its spirit. The law did not intend to punish the intention, but the attempt to defraud the revenue.
*313 But as the construction of the law was liable to some question, the court will, suffer the certificate of probable cause to remain as it is. A doubt as to the-true construction of the law is as reasonable •a cause for seizure as a doubt respecting the fact.
Sentence affirmed.
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