Gros v. United States

136 F.2d 878 (1943)

GROS

v.

UNITED STATES.

No. 10165.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

June 21, 1943.

Morris Lavine, of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

Howard V. Calverley, Asst. U.S. Atty., of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

Before DENMAN, MATHEWS, and STEPHENS, Circuit Judges.

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment sentencing appellant to the penitentiary for five years on one count of an indictment charging appellant to be an agent of the German Government and failing to register as such an agent in violation of the Act of June 15, 1917, c. 30, Title VIII, § 3, 40 Stat.…