Swan v. United States

VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment of conviction in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia of appellant, defendant below, upon an indictment in six counts. At the request of counsel for defendant, the court directed a verdict of not guilty on all the counts excepting the fourth, which charged as follows:

*922“That the said Charles T. Swan, on, to wit, the said first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and on divers other days and times between that day and the day of the finding of this indictment, and at the District of…