Hyde v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Hearing on an appeal by two of four persons indicted and tried for conspiracy under U. S. Kev. Stat. sec. 5440, from a judgment of conviction of tbe Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
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Hearing on an appeal by two of four persons indicted and tried for conspiracy under U. S. Kev. Stat. sec. 5440, from a judgment of conviction of tbe Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: The indictment in this case, presented in the supreme court of the District of Columbia, February 17th, 1904, charged John A. Benson, Frederick A. Hyde, Joost H. Schneider, and Henry P. Dimond with entering into a conspiracy to defraud the United States. The general object of the conspiracy, as alleged, was to obtain titles to land from the United…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Shepard
The question raised by the demurrer to the indictment was settled on the special appeal before referred to.
The second and third assignments of error are founded on the exception taken to the order overruling the pleas in abatement. These relate to the organization of the grand jury. By the terms of the Code of the District, the clerk of the supreme- court of the District of Columbia, the marshal, and the collector of taxes, are constituted a commission to, from time to time, make a list of jurors for service in said court; the same to be selected as nearly as may be from the citizens in…
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3Cited by8 opinions
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