Bannon v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON. This was a writ of error to review' a conviction of the •plaintiffs in error, who were jointly indicted with twenty-five others, for a conspiracy “to commit an offence against the United States,” in aiding and abetting the landing in the United States of Chinese laborers in violation of the exclusion act, by furnishing such laborers false, fraudulent, and pretended evidences of identification, and…
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ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON. This was a writ of error to review' a conviction of the •plaintiffs in error, who were jointly indicted with twenty-five others, for a conspiracy “to commit an offence against the United States,” in aiding and abetting the landing in the United States of Chinese laborers in violation of the exclusion act, by furnishing such laborers false, fraudulent, and pretended evidences of identification, and by counselling, advising, and directing said laborers, and furnishing them information and advice touching the questions…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
This case is before us upon certain assignments of error, the principal ones of which relate to t'he sufficiency • of the indictment.
1. The indictment is claimed to be fatally defective, in that it fails to allege that the defendants feloniously conspired to commit the offence in question. The language of the indictment in this particular is as follows: That the defendant did, “with divers other evil-disposed persons, to the grand jury unknown, unlawfully, wilfully, knowingly, and maliciously conspire, combine, and confederate together and with each other to wilfully, knowingly, unlawfully,…
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