Compagna v. Hiatt

UNDERWOOD, District Judge.

The above cases were, by agreement of the parties, tried together because they involve identical questions of law and substantially the same facts.

These findings of fact and conclusions of law are entitled in both cases and filed therein as findings and conclusions in each case, respectively.

Petitioners, after conviction by a jury, were, on the 31st day of December, 1943, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, sentenced to terms of ten years imprisonment upon an indictment charging violation of the Anti-Racketeering Act, 18…