Karem v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Kentucky. The plaintiff in error has been convicted under an Indictment framed under section 5508 of the Revised Statutes [U. S. Comp.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Kentucky. The plaintiff in error has been convicted under an Indictment framed under section 5508 of the Revised Statutes [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3712], The indictment, in substance, charges that the plaintiff in error and C. H. Watson and G. P. Bohn and others, to the grand jury unknown, combined and conspired together to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate certain named persons of color, citizens of the United States and of the state of Kentucky, and lawfully qualified voters under the law of Kentucky,…
1Opinion of the CourtLurton, Circuit Judge
Many errors have been assigned and argued, but, inasmuch as we are of opinion that no offense was charged against the United States in the indictment, it is wholly unnecessary to pass upon any of the other questions of either fact or law.
If congress has not declared the acts charged to have been done by Karem to be an offense against the United States, the courts have no' power to treat them as such, even though the congress may have the constitutional power to make such acts a crime against the United States. United States v. Reese, 92 U. S. 214, 23 L. Ed. 563.
The contention of the…
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