Hiatt v. United States

PAGE, Circuit Judge.

This is a writ of error to reverse a judgment of conviction before a jury in the District Court upon all of the 17 counts of an indictment, except, the first. The offenses charged were committed while plaintiff in error was president of the Dickinson Trust Company, an Indiana corporation, and while, as charged, the trust company was a member of the Federal Eeserve System.

In 1918, the Dickinson Trust Company,, through the action of its board of directors, made application to purchase stock and to-become a member in the Federal Eeserve Bank of Chicago. The stock was received…