Baker v. United States

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs in error were convicted on each of the five counts of the indictment after demurrers thereto had been overruled. The sentence imposed upon each of them was such as could have been imposed on a proper conviction under any one of the'counts.

It is contended that each count of the indictment was subject to demurrer on grounds assigned, to the effect that the allegations thereof as to time and place of forming or entering into the alleged conspiracy are so vague and indefinite as to fail to apprise the defendants of the charge against them with the required…