Vedin v. United States

GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in error was convicted on three counts of an indictment which charged him with making three several false affidavits of annual assessment' work upon three several association placer mining claims for the year 1916. The indictment in each count charged violation of chapter 10 of the Session Laws of Alaska of the year 1915. A demurrer was interposed to the indictment on the ground that the Session Laws so referred to are unconstitutional and void. The demurrer was overruled. The plaintiff in error, before the introduction of any evidence, demanded that the…