In re Lewis

SHELBY, Circuit Judge.

At. the March adjourned term, 1901, of this court, the grand jury indicted Robert W. Lewis, Benjamin J. Douglas, and Joseph Thomas for conspiring to return one George Walker to a condition of peonage. It is charged that in pursuance of the conspiracy Robert W. Lewis did assault, beat, and wound the said George Walker, and force him to return to his creditor’s place of business, and that this was done for the purpose of compelling Walker to work for R. W. Lewis and others, — “to work out a debt claimed to be due them.” The second count in the indictment charges that the…