United States v. Greene
District Court, S.D. Georgia
Indictment for Conspiracy. The parties arraigned before the court are under indictment with Michael A. Connolly and Oberlin M. Carter for the offense of an alleged conspiracy to defraud the United Btates of America of large sums of money appropriated by congress for certain river and harbor improvements within the Southern district of Georgia.
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Indictment for Conspiracy. The parties arraigned before the court are under indictment with Michael A. Connolly and Oberlin M. Carter for the offense of an alleged conspiracy to defraud the United Btates of America of large sums of money appropriated by congress for certain river and harbor improvements within the Southern district of Georgia. It will suffice at present to state in general terms that it is alleged that Oberlin M. Carter was a captain in the engineer corps of the United States army; that he was In charge of the Improvements; that it was contemplated by the alleged conspirators…
1Opinion of the CourtSpeer, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The defense offered at this period of the case by the persons arraigned is a plea in abatement, which is a dilatory plea. It is an attempt to annul an indictment of the grand jury of a United States court, without any regard to the question of the guilt or innocence of the prisoners or of the public interest at stake. Pleas of this character, where it is not made to appear that any unfair prejudice has been *689done to the accused, are regarded with great disfavor. This is made to appear not only by the controlling act of congress on the subject, but by a long'…
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