Catrino v. United States

BONE, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Sam Catrino was convicted of selling liquor to a 16 year old Indian ward of the Federal Government. There was no appeal. Catrino was subsequently prosecuted in the instant action under two counts, the first charging subornation of perjury in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 232 1 and the second with obstruction of justice, 18 U.S.C.A. § 241 (1945 ed.) 2 in that, in the course of the defense of the first prosecution, he procured one James Rennaker to commit perjury. Rennaker had falsely testified in the first case that he had witnessed the sale of liquor and that' the…