Semel v. United States

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

This case presents questions of the application of the new Rules of Criminal Procedure in federal courts, which became effective in March, 1946, to an indictment returned in October, 1945, and to the review in this court of a refusal on June 26, 1946, by the district judge to transfer the case for trial to the District Court for the Southern District of New York under Rule 21(b).1

The proceeding in this court is a petition by the defendants addressed to the judges of this court accompanied by affidavits and uncertified copies of the indictment, the motion to transfer made…