Summers v. United States

GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in error was indicted under section 5209 of the Revised Statutes (12 U.S.C.A. § 592 and note), delating to national banks, and was charged with 56 separate crimes thereunder. He demurred to the indictment on the ground that it violated section 43 of Carter’s Alaska Code, p. 52 (Act March 3, 1899, c. 429, 30 Stat. 1290), *31which provides “that the indictment must charge but one crime and in one form only.” The demurrer was overruled. The plaintiff in error elected to stand upon the demurrer, and refused to plead further. He was thereupon adjudged guilty of…