MacKnight v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts; James M. Morton, Judge. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Harmon P. Mac-Knight. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSON, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the defendant, was convicted in the court below upon an indictment under section 215 of the Criminal Code of the United States. Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, 35 Stat. 1130, Comp. St. § 10385.
The indictment contained two counts. In the first, the scheme or artifice which it was charged the defendant devised was, in substance, that the defendant falsely pretended that one John Cassidy, of Bangor, in the state of Maine, on the 3d day of November, 1912, conveyed to the North Carolina Traction Company, a corporation, certain timber…
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