Ex parte Browne

HOUGH, District Judge.

In the year 1903 several indictments were found by the grand jury of this district against the relator. In one he was charged with conspiring to defraud the United .States of duties upon imports, and in another with procuring the admission of go.ods into the United States in violation of Revised Statutes, § 5444 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3677]. Upon the conspiracy charge Browne was duly convicted and sentenced to a term in the prison at Sing Sing. This conviction was affirmed upon appeal, and an application for certiorari to the Supreme Court refused. Upon the charge…