Wynkoop Will Take Appeal
to Higher Court.
Wynkoop Will
Take Appeal to
Higher Court
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Pursuant to his recent conviction on the charge of illegally converting to his own use liquors confiscated by dry officers working under his supervision, John J. Wynkoop, former chief field agent of the Federal prohibition forces, was yesterday sentenced to a year and a day in the penitentiary by Federal Judge Henning.
Al McDonald, counsel for Wynkoop, gave immediate notice of appeal. Pending the application to the Federal Court of Appeals, Wynkoop will be at liberty on his original bond of $3000. Judge Henning declared he would not increase the bond as he had been assured that the deposed field agent could be found when sought by the court.
Wynkoop was taken into custody last fall by operatives of the intelligence service, who testified that he had turned into the government warehouse only one-half of the amount of liquor seized in a Long Beach raid. A subsequent search of Wynkoop's home resulted in the remainder of the confiscated liquor being found in a closet.
The convicted officer, who was an aide to former Prohibition Administrator Robert E. Frith, stated at the trial that he intended the liquor as "bait" to trap bootleggers.
Source:
Unknown, "Wynkoop Will Take Appeal to Higher Court," The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Tuesday, 12 April, 1927, p. A13.
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