Jones v. United States

MORROW, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in error was charged by indictment in the Circuit Court for the District of Oregon with John H. Mitchell, Binger Hermann, John N. Williamson, Franklin P. Mays, and George Sorenson with the crime of conspiracy, alleged to have been- entered into on the 15th day of February, 1902, between the parties named, “and with divers other persons to the said grand jurors unknown,” to defraud the United States out of the possession and use of and title to divers large tracts of the public lands of the United States of great value, to wit, 200,000 acres of the public…