United States v. Central Supply Ass'n

WILKIN, District Judge.

Twenty-five defendants filed pleas in abatement. Some of such defendants based their pleas upon identical grounds. Others varied the assignment of reasons for their pleas. The basic reasons assigned by the pleas may be divided into four classes:

1. That the term of court at which the grand jury was impanelled had expired before the return of the indictment and that the grand jury was therefore without authority and the indictment a nullity.

2. (a) That the indictment names 115 co-conspirators whom it failed to indict, and is therefore a violation of the Fifth Amendment to…