United States v. Valenti

MARIS, Circuit Judge.

The defendant was indicted in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey on the charge of making in Camden, New Jersey, a false statement in a matter within the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board in an “Affidavit of Noncommunist Union Officer”, namely, that he was not a member of the Communist Party or affiliated therewith. At the conclusion of the evidence at the defendant’s trial he moved for a judgment of acquittal on the ground, inter alia, that the venue jurisdiction of the court had not been shown. The motion was denied, the jury…