Fain v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of South Dakota; James D. Elliott, Judge. Logan Fain and another were convicted of conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, and bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
[1] The defendants below, Rain and Baker, were convicted of conspiracy to induce persons to make false entries on public lands, to procure and to hold for sale for their own profit relinquishments by homestead entrymen, and to make and cause to be made false and pretended contests of homestead entries for the purpose of preventing the lands covered by them from being entered by other qualified entrymen until they could sell their relinquishments for their own benefit; in violation of section 5440, Revised Statutes (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3676). That section reads in…
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