Fitter v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. John Fitter and others were convicted of conspiring to defraud the United States, and the named defendant alone brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the defendant, was indicted with five others for having conspired to defraud the United States. They were all tried together, and all were found guilty. The defendant Fitter was sentenced to imprisonment at Atlanta for one year and nine months and to pay a fine of $5,000.
[ 1 ] He alone has sued out a writ of error, and there are 62 assign - ments of error, which occupy 12 printed pages of the record. We think this a good occasion to call attention of counsel to what the Supreme Court has said on several occasions in reference to…
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