Gourdain v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Th.e plaintiff in error, Louis A. Gourdain, was indicted, with one John H. Dalton, for violations of section 5480, Rev. St. (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3696), and upon joint trial both were convicted. This writ of error is prosecuted from the judgment thereupon against the first-named defendant.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Th.e plaintiff in error, Louis A. Gourdain, was indicted, with one John H. Dalton, for violations of section 5480, Rev. St. (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3696), and upon joint trial both were convicted. This writ of error is prosecuted from the judgment thereupon against the first-named defendant. The indictment contains three counts, averring like schemes to defraud — that described under the first and second counts, stated as carried on under the name of “Louisiana State Loan &…
1Opinion of the Court
SEAMAN, Circuit Judge.
The various errors assigned and pressed in the argument for revex-sal of the judgment ag'ainst the plaintiff in error, Louis A. Gourdain, are reducible to these propositions: (1) That violation of the statute is neither charged by apt averments in the indictment, nor established by the evidence; (2) that the court erred in the denial of instructions requested on behalf of the plaintiff in error; and (3) that error was committed after verdict upon motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment. Consideration of the theory upon which each of the general propositions rests…
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