Humes v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. The plaintiff in error was indicted for violating section 5486. of the Revised Statutes' of the United States. The indictment contained nine counts.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. The plaintiff in error was indicted for violating section 5486. of the Revised Statutes' of the United States. The indictment contained nine counts. They, respéctively, charged the withholding and detention of certain sums of money for pension fees in excess of the amount allowed by the statute to be . charged, to wit, the first, third, fifth, seventh and ninth counts; 'that defendant withheld, respectively, from William Anderson, Isaac Bloodson, Ann Galloway and Whitfield Pryor the. sev- ' eral sums of…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice McKenna,
after stating the case, delivered the •opinion of the court.
Ve cannot regard as error the omission of the court to givé instructions which were not asked. In Isaacs v. United States, 159 U. S. 487, 491, Mr. Justice Brown said: “It is no ground for reversal that the court omitted to.give instructions, wheie they were not requested by the defendant. It is sufficient that the court gave no erroneous instructions. Pennock v. Dialogue, 2 Pet. 1, 15; Texas and Pacific R’y Co. v. Volk, 151 U. S. 73, 78.” Nor are instruction's which- were given but not excepted to subject to…
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