Ballew v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE OIROHIT COURT OF THE UNITED. STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA. At the October term, 1893, of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Georgia, an indictment was found against the plaintiff in error, embracing two counts, the first charging him with wrongfully withholding from a pensioner of the United States, one Lucy Burrell, part of a pension allowed and due her, and the second accusing him of demanding and receiving,- as…
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ERROR TO THE OIROHIT COURT OF THE UNITED. STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA. At the October term, 1893, of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Georgia, an indictment was found against the plaintiff in error, embracing two counts, the first charging him with wrongfully withholding from a pensioner of the United States, one Lucy Burrell, part of a pension allowed and due her, and the second accusing him of demanding and receiving,- as agent, a greater compensation for services in prosecuting the claim for pension than is provided by the title of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
The assignments of error address themselves to four rulings of the court, the one admitting in evidence the pension certificate and the other excluding certain testimony, and two to the refusal to give the instruction requested, as well as to the error alleged in the instruction given.
The ground of objection relied upon as to the record from the Pension Office is that the copy was improperly authenticated, because the certificate signed by the acting Secretary of the Interior, and under the seal of the department, referred only to the official character of the Commissioner of Pensions, and…
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