Hocking Valley Ry. Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western Division of the Northern District of Ohio; John M. Killits, Judge. The Hocking Valley Railway Company was convicted of offenses (194 Fed. 234), and it brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
DENISON, Circuit Judge.
The railway company was indicted for giving special concessions to the • Sunday Creek Company, one of its coal shippers, in violation of the Interstate Commerce Act and the Elkins Act. After demurrers to all the counts had been overruled, and after certain counts of the indictment had been dismissed, there remained ten, and to each of these counts the defendant, by leave of the court, pleaded nolo contendere. The defendant was thereupon by th court found guilty upon each, of these counts, a motion in arrest of judgment was overruled, and the defendant was fined $42,000.
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