United States v. Raisch

DE HAVEN, District Judge.

The indictment contains eight counts. The defendant demurs thereto, and the general question presented for decision relates to the sufficiency of the indictment under section 5424 of the Revised Statutes [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3668]. That section reads as follows:

“Every person applying to be admitted a citizen, or appearing as a witness for any such person, who knowingly personates any other person than himself, or falsely appears in the name of a deceased person, or in an assumed or fictitious name, or falsely makes, forges, or counterfeits any oath, notice,…