Dillard v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court-of the United States for the Northern District of California. The plaintiff in error was charged with forging duplicate certificates of residence issued by the government of the United States, through a collector of internal revenue, to Chinese laborers entitled to be and remain in the United States, in place of original certificates lost or destroyed.
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In Error to the District Court-of the United States for the Northern District of California. The plaintiff in error was charged with forging duplicate certificates of residence issued by the government of the United States, through a collector of internal revenue, to Chinese laborers entitled to be and remain in the United States, in place of original certificates lost or destroyed. Counts 1 to 5, inclusive, of the indictment, charge the forging of five of such official documents on five specified dates. Counts 6 to 10, inclusive, charge the uttering of the said five documents on the dates on…
1Opinion of the CourtGilbert, Circuit Judge
It is assigned as error that the court overruled the motion to quash the indictment. • Section 1024, Rev. St. [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 720], defines the circumstances under which counts may be joined in one indictment. It is:
“Where there are several charges against any person for the same act or transaction, or for two or more acts or transactions connected together, or for two or more acts or transactions of the same class of crimes or offenses, which may be properly joined.”
The plaintiff in error, having submitted with his motion to quash his demurrer to the indictment for misjoinder,…
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- Dolan v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1904
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