Greene v. United States

“It is better that a prisoner should escape altogether than that á judgment of conviction of an infamous crime-should be sustained where the record does not clearly show that there was a valid trial.” Crain v. United States, 162 U. S. 625, 16 Sup. Ct. 952, 40 L. Ed. 1097.

I do not agree with my brethren in their disposition of this case. Upon the trial before the jury, the court permitted the government, over the objection of the defendants, to introduce in evidence the books of the American Exchange National Bank of New York, consisting of ledgers and journals. These books purported to…