Pierce v. United States

SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

Convicted on seventeen counts of an indictment, each charging either false impersonation of federal officers or fraudulently obtaining money in the pretended character of such officers, in violation of section 32 of the Criminal Code (18 U.S.C. A. § 76), the appellants challenge the sufficiency of the indictment, assail the evidence as too vague and insubstantial to support a verdict, and complain of an unfair trial.

It was the theory of the government that the accused, capitalizing the great interest that the farmers of Western Tennessee had manifested in the objectives…