Freeman v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Albert Freeman. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error. This cause comes here on writ of error to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Albert Freeman. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error. This cause comes here on writ of error to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The questions raised relate to the indictments, trial, verdict, sentence, and bill of exceptions in the prosecution by the United States against Albert Freeman, who was indict,ed and inod witu William .1. Morton, Julian Hawthorne, Josiah Quincy, and John McKennon who were…
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, Circuit Judge.
The defendant, having been convicted and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, comes into this court complaining of various errors which he alleges occurred during his trial. The trial in some respects was a remarkable one and lasted for four months. The evidence is voluminous and the record is contained in ten large volumes of 7,000 printed pages. The charge of the trial judge covers 87 pages and the requests to charge, on behalf of the defendant, were 86. The defendant has filed 210 assignments of error, and the court is asked especially to consider 91 of these…
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