Legal Opinion

United States v. Reynolds

District Court, S.D. Alabama

Decided March 13, 1914No. 4086Published

J. A. Reynolds was indicted for peonage. On demurrer to special plea.

1Opinion of the Court

TOUFMIN, District Judge.

This case is submitted on the indictment and a special plea setting up certain facts as those constituting the defense in the case, and reciting in connection therewith certain statutes of the state of Alabama, being sections 6846, 6847, and others, Code. Ala. 1907.

The facts averred are substantially the same as those found by the court to exist in the case of the United States v. Broughton, 213 Fed. 345, this day decided by this court. The allegations of fact in the *353two indictments are substantially the same, with the exception that the convict Rivers, on his…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. United States v. BroughtonDistrict Court, S.D. Alabama · 1914

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