Sartain v. United States

ROSTER, Circuit Judge.

Albert E. Sartain and Lawrence Riehl, plaintiffs in error, were charged with conspiring with each other and with Looney J. Rletcher and Thomas P. Hayden to receive bribes of $1,500 from each of seven named persons, who were to be confined as prisoners in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., to influence their official action in granting said prisoners certain special privileges, in violation of section 117, Penal Code (Comp. St. § 10287). Sartain was the warden of the said penitentiary, and Rletcher a deputy warden, while Hayden was one of the chaplains. Riehl had…