Nicholson v. United States

BOOTH, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered after a plea of guilty to an indictment charging a conspiracy by defendant Nicholson (appellant here) with others, to injure, threaten, and intimidate Cortez T. Harrison, a citizen of the United States, in the free exercise and enjoyment of rights and privileges secured to him, by the Constitution and laws of the United States; and to injure, threaten, and intimidate him because he had exercised such rights.

The charging part of the indictment is set out in the margin.1

*388The statute under which the indictment was drawn reads as…