De Luca v. United States

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs in error were tried on two indictments, which were consolidated. The first indictment charged the plaintiffs in error and seven other defendants with conspiracy to defraud the United States, by removing 20 cases of opium, on which import duty had not been paid, from a bonded warehouse, without payment of the duty; to procure export withdrawal permits by falsely representing that the opium was still in the warehouse and would be exported; to withhold the opium from exportation, concealing it in an unknown place, and distributing it throughout the United…