Yates v. United States

JAMES ALGER FEE, Circuit Judge.

Defendants in this criminal case were convicted by a jury upon an indictment which charged them as participants in a conspiracy to commit crimes with the specific intent of causing the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force and violence as speedily as circumstances would permit. The trial lasted over a period of some six months, and the jury, before returning its verdicts, took six full days for deliberation. Each defendant has appealed from the judgment of conviction entered pursuant to the finding of the jury. Every phase of the indictment,…