Legal Opinion
Kirchner v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided December 5, 1918No. 1655PublishedCited by 12 opinions
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of West Virginia, at Parkersburg; Alston G. Dayton, Judge. Criminal prosecution by the United States against PI. E. Kirchner. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
McDOWELL, District Judge.
On January 14, 1918, the grand jury of the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia, at Parkersburg, returned the following indictment:
“The grand jurors of the United States, duly impaneled, sworn, and charged to inquire within and for the said district, upon thoir oaths present that H. E. Kirchner on the--day of---, 1917, and after the 17th day of June, 1917, the United States then and there being at war with the imperial German government, did, at Elizabeth, in the Northern district of West Virginia, willfully, unlawfully, and…
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