Hibbard v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiff in error was tried and convicted under each of three counts in an indictment alleging violations of section 5480, Rev. St., as amended (3 U. S. Comp.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiff in error was tried and convicted under each of three counts in an indictment alleging violations of section 5480, Rev. St., as amended (3 U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3696), in reference to fraudulent uso of the post office establishment; and this writ of error is brought for review of the judgment. ’The indictment alleges that the plaintiff in error, under the name of The Boston Medical Institute, “devised a scheme and artifice to defraud” persons named “and a class of…
1Opinion of the CourtSeaman, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as 'above). This writ of error is predicated on a formidable assignment of errors (extending over 98 pages of the printed record); but we believe the propositions embraced therein, which require discussion for the purposes of review, may be simplified under a few heads, and we are impressed with no difficulty in the solution of either under well-settled doctrines of the criminal law. Thus grouped, the contentions are: (1) That the indictment is insufficient; (2) that no offense was proven; and that the trial court erred (3) in rulings upon the reception and rejection…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Durland v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- McKnight V. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1902
- Lemon v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1908
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- Goldstein v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1933
- Patterson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1915
- State v. JacksonWashington Supreme Court · 1915
- Worthington v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1933
- J. D. McCarty v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1969
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