United States v. Baron Dehirsch Meyer, Leonard L. Abess, W. George Kennedy and Sam R. Becker

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment sustaining a motion to dismiss an indictment of twenty-one counts, which occupy forty-seven pages of the printed record.

Count one of the indictment is drawn under the general conspiracy statute, Title 18 United States Code § 371, proscribing a conspiracy “either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose.” It charges that the four named defendants together with Nathaniel B. Elkins, named as co-conspirator but not defendant, conspired to violate…