Morris v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Oklahoma. W. H. Morris and C. H. Craig were convicted of offenses, and they bring error.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Oklahoma. W. H. Morris and C. H. Craig were convicted of offenses, and they bring error. Defendánts requested the following instruction: “You are further instructed that the good character of the defendant among his neighbors in.the community in which he resides is of value, especially in doubtful cases, and if you believe from the evidence in this case that the defendant W. H. Morris hears a good character or reputation in the community in which he resides, you may consider such character in connection with all…
1Opinion of the Court
TRIEBER, District Judge.
The defendants were indicted, charged with violations of the act of Congress of February 13, 1913 (37 Stat. 670). There were three counts in the indictment; but, as the defendants were only convicted on the first and second counts, the third need not be considered.
The first count charges the defendants with entering a car, in the Western district of Oklahoma, belonging to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company (giving a description of the numbers and letters on the car), containing a shipment of shoes consigned by the W. E. Douglas Shoe Company at Brockton,…
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