Baas v. United States

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

Appellants were convicted of violating section 32, United States Criminal Code (18 USCA § 76), on an indictment which, omitting jurisdictional and other formal averments, charges that they “did unlaiwfully, willfully, knowingly, feloniously and falsely assume and pretend each of them to be an officer and employee of the government of the United States, and to be acting under the authority of the United, States, to wit, officers and employees of the Bureau of Prohibition, namely, federal prohibition officers, with the intent then and there to defraud one Paul Stropolo of…