Nye v. United States

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction and sentence under a count of an indictment charging wilful and corrupt obstruction of justice in violation of section 135 of the Criminal Code, 18 U.S.C.A. § 241. Appellant is one R. H. Nye, who was charged with contempt of court because of the same obstruction of justice in a case which was before this court in Nye v. United States, 4 Cir., 113 F.2d 1006, and before the Supreme Court in Nye v. United States, 313 U.S. 33, 61 S.Ct. 810, 85 L.Ed. 1172. The Supreme Court held that the conduct of Nye and 'one Mayers, who was charged with…