Wyatt v. United States

WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

The indictment, drawn under section 37 of the Criminal Code (18 USCA § 88) and containing only one count, charged 19 persons with conspiring to commit an offense against the United States, namely, to violate provisions of the National Prohibition Act. 41 Stat. 305 (27 USCA). Fifteen were tried, 12 were convicted and sentenced and 11 have joined in this writ of error.

The conspiracy, as alleged, extended from 1921 until the finding of the indictment in 1926; evidence of the defendants’ participation within the period of the statute of limitation being, of course,…