United States v. McClure

WELSH, District Judge.

The defendants in this ease were indicted on June 27, 1933, for conspiracy to violate certain provisions of the National Prohibition Act. On September the 9th, 1933, a number of pleas in abatement for various defendants were filed, and, for the purposes of argument and for the purposes of opinion, may all be taken together by agreement of the parties.

The plea in abatement alleges eight different reasons in support thereof, namely, noneomplianee with the act of Congress relating to the impaneling of jurors and grand jurors; that the jurors so chosen were selected solely…