Moffatt v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri; David P. Dyer, Judge. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Benjamin E. Moffatt. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
ELLIOTT, District Judge.
The plaintiff in error, Benjamin F. Moffatt, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was indicted, charged with violations of section 215 of the Penal Code. The indictment contained six counts, and upon trial the jury returned a verdict of not guilty as to all of the counts in the indictment, except count No. 3, and as to that a verdict of guilty was returned. So much of the indictment as is material here is as follows:
“The grand jurors of the United States, impaneled and sworn in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Eastern…
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