United States v. Hess
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIFICATE OF DIVISION IN OPINION BETWEEN THE JUDGES OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. The case, as stated by the court, was as follows: This case comes before us from the Circuit - Court for the Southern District of New York on a certificate of division of opinion between the Judges.
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CERTIFICATE OF DIVISION IN OPINION BETWEEN THE JUDGES OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. The case, as stated by the court, was as follows: This case comes before us from the Circuit - Court for the Southern District of New York on a certificate of division of opinion between the Judges. The defendant was indicted in that court for an alleged offence, described in general terms as that of devising “ a scheme to defraud divers other persons,” 'to the jurors unknown, and intending to effect it by inciting them to open communication with him through…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justice Field,
after stating tbe case, delivered the opinion of the .court.
The statute upon which the indictment is founded only, describes the general nature of the offence prohibited; and the indictment, in repeating its language without averments disclosing the particulars pf the alleged offence, states no matters upon which issue could be formed for submission to a júry. The general, and, with few exceptions, of which the present is not one, the universal rule, on this subject, is, that all the material facts and circumstances embraced in the definition of the offence must be stated,…
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