Drew v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In, Error to thé Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Charles D. Drew and Charles H. Warded were convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States, and they bring error. This cause comes here upon writ of error to review judgments of conviction against the plaintiffs in error, who were tried on an indictment for conspiracy. Four men were indicted. One died before, trial and another was found by the jury “not guilty.”
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In, Error to thé Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Charles D. Drew and Charles H. Warded were convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States, and they bring error. This cause comes here upon writ of error to review judgments of conviction against the plaintiffs in error, who were tried on an indictment for conspiracy. Four men were indicted. One died before, trial and another was found by the jury “not guilty.” The indictment was under section 5440, U. S. Rev. Stat. (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3676), which provides that: “If two or more persons…
1Opinion of the CourtRacombe, Circuit Judge
(after-stating the facts as above). The defendant acquitted was chief clerk to the deputy surveyor. The dead man and the two plaintiffs in error were United States weighers. There were five weighing districts in the port, with a weigher in charge of each. It was a part of the duties of each weigher to assign the different assistant weighers in his district to the various piers and places where the weighing of imported merchandise was done. It was also the weighers' duty to oversee the work of the assistant weighers, to inspect their “dock books,” and themselves to prepare from the data…
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- Statler v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
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