United States v. Cason

DAWKINS, District Judge.

After due consideration of the supplemental demurrer and motion to quash, I am of the view that the same should be overruled.

The main point urged is that the indictment is duplicitous because it charges the defendants with having solicited funds for a political purpose, to-wit, as subscriptions to a newspaper published by one of the political factions in the state, from several persons who were receiving as a part of their salaries or compensation, funds from the United States Treasury. If this solicitation was made substantially as one act from all of these parties at…