Trope v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Oklahoma; John H. Cotteral, Judge. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Isaac Trope. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
MUNGER, District Judge.
The plaintiff in error, hereafter called defendant, was convicted on three counts of an indictment which charged that he purchased from a soldier military property of the United States. It is conceded by the district attorney that the indict-*349meat was drawn on the supposition that the statute which applied to the facts was section 35 of the Penal Code as it existed prior to the amendment thereto by the Act of Congress of October 23, 1918, 40 Stat. 1015 (volume 2, Supp. U. S. Comp. Stats. 1919, § 10199). If any offense was committed it occurred subsequently to the taking…
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