Dixon v. United States

KENYON, Circuit Judge.

Riley Dixon, George Curtis, Grover C. Durrill, Curtis Kelley, Earl Thayer, Frank Nash, Isaac Ogg, and Goldie Bates were, on the 23d day of February, 1924, indieted by a grand jury in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma for violation, of section 197 of the Penal Code (Comp. St.. § 10367).

The indictment contains two counts — the first charging that on or about August 20, 1923, near Okesa, in Osage county, Old., the defendants, with dangerous weapons, assaulted certain postal clerks having the lawful custody of the United States mail, in a…