Fulton v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of conviction of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in a prosecution for embezzlement. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: This is an appeal from a judgment in the supreme court of the District, convicting defendant, Creed M. Fulton, of embezzlement, the sentence of the court being three years in the penitentiary.
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Hearing on an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of conviction of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in a prosecution for embezzlement. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: This is an appeal from a judgment in the supreme court of the District, convicting defendant, Creed M. Fulton, of embezzlement, the sentence of the court being three years in the penitentiary. The indictment was in four counts, the first and third charging embezzlement, the second and fourth, which were abandoned, larceny after trust. In the first count defendant was charged, with the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Robb
To avoid needless repetition, we will state the various assignments of error as we reach them, and will first consider the assignment relating to the failure of the members of the jury *40commission to take an oath as such. Sec. 198 of the Code [31 St at. at L. 1222, chap. 854] constitutes the clerk of the supreme court of the District, the United States marshal, and the collector of taxes for the District, “a commission to from time to time make the list of jurors for service in said court,” etc. Nowhere in the Code is there a provision requiring these commissioners to take oath as such, but…
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