Husar v. United States

DIETRICH, Circuit Judge.

The appellant was convicted in the United States Court for China upon an information charging, in one count the felonious destruction, and in another the corrupt disposition, of a bound volume of documentary evidence which had come into his possession in the course of an official investigation he, as United States attorney, was called upon to make of the conduct of the person to whom he corruptly delivered the documents.

The first question is of the sufficiency of the record to disclose jurisdiction in the trial court, which, like that of other United States courts, is…