Jelke v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Criminal prosecution by the United States against John E. Jelke, Harry E. Hitchins, William. M. Steele, Hugh D. Cameron, William R. Dillard, William P. Jackson, Fred Rapp, R. B. Tullís, Francis M. Dowry, and four others. From judgments of conviction, the defendants named separately bring error.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Criminal prosecution by the United States against John E. Jelke, Harry E. Hitchins, William. M. Steele, Hugh D. Cameron, William R. Dillard, William P. Jackson, Fred Rapp, R. B. Tullís, Francis M. Dowry, and four others. From judgments of conviction, the defendants named separately bring error. The nine plaintiffs in error and four others were indicted by the grand jury, charged with the crime of conspiracy to defraud the United States out of the ten ceDts per pound tax due by…
1Opinion of the CourtEvan A. Evans, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). Is the indictment sufficient?
Plaintiffs in error appropriately and timely raised this question, and now claim that the “allegations set forth in the indictment do not constitute- a conspiracy to defraud the United States.” The indictment is assailed:
*273(A) Because of the defects in the allegations wherein it is sought to describe the conspiracy, and
(B) Because of the defects in the allegations wherein it is sought to describe acts which are therein alleged to have been done to effect the object of the conspiracy.
[1] Contending that the specific allegations…
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