Stone v. United States

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from sentences imposed upon the appellants upon their pleas of nolo contendere to .their indictment with* 130 other railway employees, of whom appellants, to sustain one of their claims of error, state that by their conviction “practically two entire unions were wiped out.”

The indictment charged them with conspiring to violate the Act of February 13, 1913, 37 Stat. 670, as amended January 21, 1933, 47 Stat. 773, 18 U.S.C. § 409, 18 U.S. C.A. § 409. The Act provides, so far as pertinent here, that “ * * * whoever shall * * * unlawfully take by any…