Garrison v. Hudspeth

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

An indictment was returned against the petitioner in the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Louisiana containing 26 counts, charging him with violations of 18 U.S.C.A. § 76.

The first count of the indictment charged that on or about August 22, 1937, in the Western District of Louisiana, petitioner, with intent then and there to defraud Mashack Whorton, did knowingly, wilfully, unlawfully, feloniously, and falsely assume and pretend to be an officer and employee…