United States v. Moore
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Oregon
Rufus Moore and others were indicted for conspiracy. On demurrer to the indictment. The pending controversy is upon the demurrer to an indictment charging the defendants with having entered into a conspiracy to defraud the government.
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Rufus Moore and others were indicted for conspiracy. On demurrer to the indictment. The pending controversy is upon the demurrer to an indictment charging the defendants with having entered into a conspiracy to defraud the government. The indictment presents that, by an act of Congress entitled “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes,” approved March 3, 1901 (31 Stat 1133, c. 853 [U. S. Comp. St 1901, p. 3700]), the sum of $325,000 was appropriated for surveys and…
1Opinion of the CourtWolverton, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). A cardinal contention of counsel for defendants is that the indictment is faulty and insufficient, in that it does not set forth by apt language that the object of the conspiracy was to defraud the general government out of its money or property, nor does it contain any certain or definite description of the property of which it was sought to defraud the government, so that it might be readily identified. This contention necessarily proceeds upon the hypothesis that the indictment is drawn upon the theory that the object of the alleged conspiracy was to…
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