United States v. Eberhart

NEWMAN, District Judge.

The indictment charges the defendants with certain acts in restraint of the personal liberty of named persons of African descent, and characterizes these acts as peonage, and charges the- defendants with holding the persons named as peons, and- with returning them to a condition of peonage, in violation of the. act of Congress of March 2, 1867, c. 187, 14 Stat. 546, Rev. St. § 5526 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3715]. The act of Congress named, entitled “An act to abolish and forever prohibit the system of peonage in the territory of New Mex/co, and other parts of the…