Corliss v. United States

AMIDON, District Judge.

Defendants, Burt and Leroy Corliss, with numerous other persons, were indicted in fourteen counts for violation of section 215, and in the fifteenth count for violation of section 37 of the Penal Code (Comp. St. §§ 10385, 10201). These two defendants were convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary. They alone bring error.

The facts out of which tho case arose may be summarized as follows: Lel’oy Corliss had boon in the creamery business for over thirty years, and had conducted a business of that kind under his own management since 1902. The corporation which he first…