United States v. General Motors Corporation

KERNER, Circuit Judge.

This is a criminal prosecution for a conspiracy to restrain interstate trade and commerce in violation of § 1 of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. 26 Stat. 209, 50 Stat. 693, 15 U.S.C.A. § 1. The jury rendered a verdict acquitting all of the individual defendants and finding the four, corporate defendants guilty. This appeal is taken from the judgment entered upon the verdict fining each of the corporate defendants in the amount of $5,000.1

The errors relied on arise out of the overruling of the demurrer to the indictment, denial of a bill of particulars, denial of a motion to…