Rissieuw v. United States

FARIS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, with five others, was jointly indicted for a conspiracy to violate section 549, title 18, U.S.C. (18 U.S.C.A. § 549). Prior to the trial, three of the defendants pleaded guilty. Pending the joint trial of the remaining three, one of them was dismissed hence by the district attorney, and on the trial another was ac*67quitted. Appellant was convicted and sentenced to prison for two years. From this conviction and sentence he took this appeal in due form.

The overt acts pleaded and proved, as the statute invoked fairly forecasts, occurred on the Rosebud Indian…