McDonnell v. United States

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs in error, hereinafter for convenience called the defendants, were indicted in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, with 15 others, for conspiring to violate section 593 (a) and (b) of the Act of September 21, 1922, known as the Tariff Act of 1922 (Comp. St. §§ 5841hl2, 5841hl3), and section 3 of title 2 of the Act of October 28, 1919, entitled the National Prohibition Act (Comp. St. § 10138%aa).

The indictment recites “that it was the purpose and object of said conspiracy, and of the said conspirators and each of them,…