Jack Hanratty and Ellen Elizabeth Pool v. United States

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

Appellants were convicted of (1) conspiring to transport forged securities in interstate commerce, and (2) causing to be so transported a falsely made and forged security, namely a $400 cashier’s cheek. The grounds of this appeal are that appellants maintain that there was no substantial evidence to support the verdict, and a verdict of acquittal should have been directed; and that appellants were deprived of a fair trial because women were excluded from the jury.

The evidence against the appellants was briefly as follows: Han-ratty, owner of a San Antonio bar, had in his…