United States v. Kessel

SHIRAS, District Judge.

By section 5421 of the .Revised Statutes, it is declared that “every person * ⅜ who transmits to, or presents at, or causes or procures to be transmitted to, or presented at, any office or officer of the government of the United States, any certificate, receipt, or other writing, in support of, or in relation to, any account or claim, with intent to defraud the United States, knowing 1he same to be false, altered, forged or counterfeited, shall be imprisoned,” etc. By the indictments filed in cases Kos. 3,511, 3,514, 3,515, 3,520, 3,521, and 3,536, the defendant herein…