Hart v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. This was an indictment against John D. Hart for alleged violation of the neutrality laws, by furnishing transporta lion for a military expedition directed against the Spanish government in Cuba. The defendant was convicted in the court below (78 Fed. 868), and thereupon sued out this writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
DALLAS, Circuit Judge.
The gravity of this case has been eloquently but needlessly adverted to by counsel on either side. Its *800importance both to the public and to the plaintiff in error is obvious, and it has received our most careful attention. The law generally pertinent to it has, however, been so fully considered by the supreme court in Wiborg v. U. S., 163 U. S. 632, 16 Sup. Ct. 1127, 1197, that, for the most part, we have but to apply the principles enunciated in that case to the one now before us. There, as here, the indictment was founded upon section 5286 of the Revised Statutes,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Wiborg v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
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