Anderson v. United States

The petitioners were convicted, in the District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, of conspiring to damage property owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority, a corporation in which the United States is a stockholder, in violation of §§ 35 (C) and 37 of the Criminal Code as amended (18 U. S. C. §§ 82, 88). The Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed the convictions, 124 F. 2d 58, and we brought the case here because it presented serious questions in the administration of federal criminal justice, 316 U. S. 651. The questions are similar to those decided in McNabb v.…