States v. Noble

KNIGHT, District Judge.

The indictment herein charges ten several defendants with the crime of conspiring to commit, with intent to defraud the United States, certain offenses against the United States. Defendants Mandl, Samschick, Girard, Gellack, and the Overland Motor Freight Company (a corporation) move to quash the indictment upon various grounds. These in substance are that the indictment fails to charge any crime against the defendants ; that the indictment upon the face thereof is vague, indefinite, and ambiguous ; and that the various “overt acts” set up in the indictment are…