Chaplin v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Southern District of California. Erank N. Chaplin and another were convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States of the use and possession of the title to certain desert lands, and they bring error.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Southern District of California. Erank N. Chaplin and another were convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States of the use and possession of the title to certain desert lands, and they bring error. The plaintiffs in error were convicted upon certain counts of an indictment which charged, in substance, that they, together with certain other persons whose names were unknown to the grand jury, conspired to defraud the United States of the use and possession of and title to certain described desert lands…
1Opinion of the CourtGtebert, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The question presented to this court is whether the indictment charges the commission of a crime.
[1] The contention of the plaintiffs in error is that, inasmuch as an entryman of land under the desert land acts has the right to assign his entry as soon as it is made, the plaintiffs in error committed no crime in conspiring to induce an entryman to make an entry when he had the actual present intention to assign his right to another; that the entryman lias the right to make an entry with the intention to assign; that the land office lias no right to exact…
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