Rieger v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. Two indictments were returned against David Y. Rieger, the plaintiff in error, in the United States district court for the Western division of the Western district of Missouri, charging him with the commission of various crimes defined by section 5209 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, while he was acting as president of the Missouri National Bank of Kansas City, Mo.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. Two indictments were returned against David Y. Rieger, the plaintiff in error, in the United States district court for the Western division of the Western district of Missouri, charging him with the commission of various crimes defined by section 5209 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, while he was acting as president of the Missouri National Bank of Kansas City, Mo. The two indictments together contained 14 counts, and they were subsequently consolidated for trial before a single jury.…
1Opinion of the Court
THAYER, Circuit Judge,
after stating the case as above, delivered ihe opinion of the court.
Certain technical objections were made in the lower court to that count of the indictment upon which a conviction was luid, and the same objections are urged in this court. These will be first noticed, ft is said — First, that the Townley note referred to in the indictment is not sufficiently described, because the name of the payee is not mentioned; second, that the pleader should have alleged that the misapplication of the funds of the banking association was “without the knowledge or consent” of the…
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