United States v. Birnbaum

RIFKIND, District Judge.

At the close of defendant’s case, six of the nine counts of the indictment were dismissed because the evidence failed to show that the crimes charged in the indictment had been committed. Counts one, six and nine remained. The first count charged the defendant with a violation of Title 8, § 220(a), U.S.C.A., in that on March 28, 1940, in the Southern District of New York, he knowingly and wilfully possessed and used an immigration visa as a Polish quota immigrant knowing the visa to have been unlawfully obtained. The illegality attributed to the obtaining of the visa…