United States v. Gruber

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, Gruber, was indicted by a jury for conspiring to defraud the United States of the disinterested services of Elizabeth Miller, a telephone operator in the New York Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission and also for the substantive offenses of aiding and abetting her in intercepting and divulging a telephone communication of March 3, 1941, and another one on March 26, 1941.

It is unnecessary to say more about the merits of the case than that the evidence adduced on the part of the government was ample to justify the charge that…