Jacob Gaston Webb and Jack Edwin Bain v. United States

On a trial before a court without a jury, appellants were convicted of a violation of Title 18 U.S.C.A. § 474, which, among other provisions, sets forth:

“Whoever prints, photographs, or in any other manner makes or executes any engraving, photograph, print, or impression in the likeness of any such obligation or other security, or any part thereof, or sells any such engraving, photograph, print, or impression, except to the United States, or brings into the United States, any such engraving, photograph, print, or impression, except by direction of some proper officer of the United States; * *…