Adamson v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Supreme Court of the Territory of New Mexico. Carl Adamson was convicted of a criminal offense. The judgment was affirmed on appeal by the Supreme Court of New Mexico (106 Pac. 653), and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
HOOK, Circuit Judge.
Adamson and one Sullivan were jointly indicted, tried, and convicted of a conspiracy to violate the laws of the United States relating to the exclusion of Chinese. Adamson appealed to the Supreme Court of the. territory of New Mexico, where the sentence was affirmed, and he then prosecuted this writ of error.
At the trial defendant Sullivan, who testified for the defense, was asked on cross-examination by counsel for tlie government whether, about the time the indictment was returned, he did not say to a Mr. Barringer that he did not think he would have any trouble in…
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