Aczel v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Indiana; Albert B. Anderson, Judge. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Alexander Aczel, Doim M. Roberts, William Crockett, George Ehrenhardt, John E. Green, Charles Houghton, Harry Montgomery, Hilton Redman, Eli H. Redman, Elmer Talbot, Lewis Nunley, and others. Judgment of conviction, and defendants named bring error.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Indiana; Albert B. Anderson, Judge. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Alexander Aczel, Doim M. Roberts, William Crockett, George Ehrenhardt, John E. Green, Charles Houghton, Harry Montgomery, Hilton Redman, Eli H. Redman, Elmer Talbot, Lewis Nunley, and others. Judgment of conviction, and defendants named bring error. Indictment was returned in the District Court for the District of Indiana against 126 persons for an offense in respect to the general election held in Vigo county, Ind., November 3, 1911.…
1Opinion of the CourtAesciiuler, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The sufficiency of the indictment is the only question brought here for determination.
[1] The first of the four counts being predicated on section 19 of the Criminal Code, which makes it a criminal act to “conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution and laws of the United States,” the validity of the count will depend primarily on whether the infraction therein charged is in respect to any right or privilege which is secured to the citizen by…
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