United States v. Pierce

MARTIN, District Judge.

The defendants, J. E. Pierce and E. PI. Roach, were jointly indicted in twenty-one counts; in the first of which they were charged with the violation of title 18, § 76, U.S.C.A., in conspiring to commit an offense against the United States; and in the other twenty counts the charge was laid against them that they had violated title 18, § 76, U.S.C.A., in falsely pretending to be United States officers.

After a trial by jury which consumed four days’ time, embracing night sessions, and in which forty-eight witnesses testified, the jury found both defendants guilty on…