Block v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska;- Thomas C. Munger, Judge. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Meyer Block. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
TRIEBER, District Judge.
The plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was jointly indicted with Henry Gaspari and Sherman Chinberg, charged with violation of section 37 of the Penal Code (Comp. St. § 10201) by conspiring with his codefendants to violate the Reed Amendment (Act of March 3, 1917, c. 162, par. 5, 39 Stat. 1069 [section 8739a, U. S. Comp. St. 1918, Comp. Stat. Ann. Supp. 1919J). Chinberg was not placed on trial and testified as a witness for the government. Gaspari and Block were tried jointly, and both were found guilty by the jury. Block alone prosecutes…
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