United States v. Hirsch
Supreme Court of the United States
Certificate of division in opinion between tbe judges of tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for the Southern District of New York. • An indictment, consisting of four counts, was found, Feb. 8, 1877, against Hiram Hirsch and others, who pleaded'that the offences therein charged had been committed more than three years before the finding of the indictment.
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Certificate of division in opinion between tbe judges of tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for the Southern District of New York. • An indictment, consisting of four counts, was found, Feb. 8, 1877, against Hiram Hirsch and others, who pleaded'that the offences therein charged had been committed more than three years before the finding of the indictment. The first count was drawn under sect. 5440, Rev. Stat., and charges the defendants with a conspiracy, entered into on the first day of September, 1878, to defraud the United States out of the duties on certain described merchandise to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
The question before us is whether the indictment describes crimes arising under the revenue laws of the United States.
There can be little doubt that the crimes set out in the third and fourth counts, conforming as they do to the description of the offence found in sect.. 5445, of a false classification of goods as to value and quality, and effecting an entry of goods at less than the true weight or measure, arise under the revenue laws. The section, intended solely for the protection of the revenue arising from customs, was originally the third section of the act of Márch 3,1863, entitled “…
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