United States v. Westbrook

LEMLEY, Chief Judge.

This cause comes on for hearing upon the motion of the defendants to dismiss counts one and two of the indictment returned against them by the Grand Jury and alternatively for an order striking certain paragraphs of said count one; the motion has been submitted upon written briefs.

The indictment purports to charge the defendants with conspiring to “embezzle, abstract, purloin and wilfully misapply moneys, funds and credits” of the Bank of Dierks, Arkansas, and to make false entries in the books, reports and statements of said bank with intent to deceive the Federal Deposit…