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Pullman Porter Goes Free in Whiskey Transport Case
Henry J. Prayer a Pullman porter arrested at Dillon months ago for transporting whiskey was released by the Circuit Court of Appeals at Asheville which held a man may carry more than the lawful whiskey amount through a state if not stopping there The decision follows Prayer operating between New York and Florida and arrested at Dillon where whiskey was found between box cars during a stop The Asheville court reversed the district court sending the case for a new trial citing the Gudger decision as a precedent and noting the rail route crossed multiple states
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Henry J. Prayer
Dillon Severel
Circuit Court of Appeals
Asheville
Juain Edwards
Maxey Adams
Edwards
Pullman
Dillon
North Carolin Line
N. C
Pullman Porter
South Carolina
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
United States District Court
Circuit Court
Knapp of
Washingon
District Court
B. H. Rutledge
Charleston
Homer Gudger
Supreme Court of the United States
Gudger