Townsend v. United States

95 F.2d 352 (1938)

TOWNSEND

v.

UNITED STATES.[*]

No. 6928.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided February 7, 1938.

Elisha Hanson and Joseph A. Cantrel, both of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Leslie C. Garnett, U. S. Atty., and H. L. Underwood, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Washington, D. C.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and STEPHENS and MILLER, Associate Justices.

MILLER, Associate Justice.

The appellant was convicted by the verdict of a jury in the District Court under an indictment charging him with violation of section 102, Rev.St., 2 U.S.C.A. § 192, which reads as…