Rose v. United States

STEPHENS, Circuit Judge.

Benjamin Rose, Louis Vitagliano, and three others were tried and convicted in the district court of violating § 88, Title 18 U.S.C.A. The indictment alleged that they “unlawfully, wilfully, knowingly, corruptly, fraudulently and feloniously” engaged in a conspiracy, beginning about December 12, 1941, and continuing until the return of the indictment, “to commit offenses against the United States, that is to say, to sell, trade, lease, ship and transfer new rubber tires, casings, and tubes to consumers and other persons in violation of the statute, executive orders,…