United States v. Sugar
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Maurice Sugar and others were indicted for conspiracy to unlawfully and willfully aid and abet and procure persons to violate the Conscription Act. On motion to quash indictment.
1Opinion of the Court
TUTTLE, District Judge.
Defendants have moved to quash the indictment herein, alleging that it charges in a single count two distinct offenses, that the acts of the defendants recited do not constitute an offense against the United States, and that the Conscription Act, on which such indictment is based, is unconstitutional for various reasons stated.
The statute in question is the act of Congress known as the Conscription Act, which was approved on May 18, 1917. The purpose of the act is the raising of national armies for the prosecution of the war against Germany, declared by Congress a few…
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