Sears v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts; James M. Morton, Judge. Criminal prosecutions by the United States against Frank I. Sears. Judgments of conviction, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.
The defendant, Sears, was convicted under three indictments charging him jointly with one Sherwood with conspiracy to defraud the United States and to bribe two government inspectors, Smith and Honen.
The three cases were tried together. On the day of the trial, Sherwood 'retracted his former plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty to each of the three conspiracy indictments. The two inspectors, Smith and Honen, who were also separately indicted for receiving the bribes alleged to have been given by Sears and Sherwood, were not put to trial, but were called by the…
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