Orth v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Tn Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of South Carolina, at Charleston; Henry A. Middleton Smith, Judge. Albert Orth was convicted of the statutory offense of aiding a convict to escape from a federal penitentiary, and of harboring and concealing the convict, and he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
The defendant was convicted and sentenced under an indictment charging violation of the following statute :
“Whoever shall rescue or attempt to rescue, from the custody of any officer or person lawfully assisting him, any person arrested upon a warrant or other process issued under the provisions of any law of the United States, or shall, directly or indirectly, aid, abet, or assist any person so arrested to escape from the custody of such officer or other person, or shall harbor or conceal any person for whose arrest a warrant or process has been so issued, so as to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Orth v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1918
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