Charlie Soper and Jack Mease v. United States

MATHEWS, Circuit Judge.

On November 17, 1953, appellants, Charlie Soper and Jack Mease, were in-dieted in two counts. Count 1 alleged: “That [appellants], on the 4th day of October, 1953, in Fairbanks Precinct, Fourth Judicial Division, Territory of Alaska, then and there being, and being then and there armed with a dangerous weapon, to wit, a loaded automatic M-l rifle, feloniously assaulted Sylvester Johnson at the residence of Mildred Young at 617-12th Avenue, in the Town of Fairbanks, Alaska, in violation of Section 65-4-22 of the Alaska Compiled Laws Annotated, 1949.” 1 Count 2 was…