Roberts v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court oí the United States for the Northern Division of the Western District of Washington. Criminal prosecution by the United States against John W. Roberts. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error.
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In Error to the District Court oí the United States for the Northern Division of the Western District of Washington. Criminal prosecution by the United States against John W. Roberts. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error. The plaintiff in error was indicted jointly with one Leo E. Coyne on Septem-oer 8, 1916, in the United States District Court for the Western Division of Washington, Northern Division, for violation of sections 37, 32, and 145 of the Penal Code of the United States. The indictment contained eight counts. A motion to quash the indictment was denied, and demurrer…
1Opinion of the CourtMorrow, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). It appears from the evidence that one Clifford Yarborough arrived in Seattle from Tennessee about February 28, 1916, with his illegitimate daughter, aged about 17 years, whose mother was a colored woman. He had attempted to legally adopt this daughter in Indiana, but adoption had been refused by the courts. He came to Seattle a stranger, intending to locate in that locality with his daughter, and brought with him about $7,500 in gold for investment. He procured lqdgings in an inferior part of the city, consisting of one room with a small kitchen behind. A…
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