Sneed v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas; James Clifton Wilson, Judge. Criminal prosecution by the United States against John Beal Sneed and J. Renfroe. Judgment of conviction, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
SIBLEY, District Judge.
Sneed and Renfroe were each convicted and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment on the fir^t and second counts of an indictment against them and one Posey, who was acquitted. The first count charges a conspiracy corruptly to influence, obstruct, and impede the due administration of justice in a court of the United States, in which was pending a civil case to which Sneed was the party defendant, by influencing and impeding one Patterson, a juror therein, by giving him whisky and offering him money to hang the jury and cause a mistrial, and that as overt acts in pursuance…
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