United States v. Chiarella

In accordance with the leave which we gave when we affirmed the convictions, the parties have now filed their briefs upon the point which we then raised of our own motion: i.e. whether Counts One and Two do not duplicate each other, and whether each does not duplicate Count Three. Count Two was for “keeping in possession” counterfeit money “with intent to defraud,” and 18 U.S.C.A. § 472 makes that an offence alternative to passing, uttering, publishing, selling, or concealing. So far therefore as any possession is a necessary incident to any of the other offences, it can not have been…