Robnett v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Idaho. The indictment In this case was founded on the act of Congress approved June 3, 1878, c. 151, 20 Stat. 89 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1545), entitled “An act for the sale of timber lands in the states of California, Oregon, Nevada, and in Washington Territory,” as amended and extended to all the public land states by Act Aug. 4, 1892, c. 375, 27 Stat 348 (U. S. Comp.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Idaho. The indictment In this case was founded on the act of Congress approved June 3, 1878, c. 151, 20 Stat. 89 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1545), entitled “An act for the sale of timber lands in the states of California, Oregon, Nevada, and in Washington Territory,” as amended and extended to all the public land states by Act Aug. 4, 1892, c. 375, 27 Stat 348 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1547), and consisted of two counts, upon the first of which the plaintiff in error was convicted. That count charged him with willfully and…
1Opinion of the CourtRoss, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The statute upon which the indictment is founded provides that surveyed public lands of the United States not included within military, Indian, or other reservations, valuable chiefly for timber but unfit for cultivation, and which have not been offered at public sale according to law, may be sold to citizens of the United States or persons who have declared their intention to become such, in quantities not exceeding 160 acres to any one person or association of persons, at the minimum price of $2.50 per acre, and that lands valuable chiefly for stone may…
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