Francis v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
OEETIOEAEI TO THE CIBCUIT COÜET OF APPEALS FOE THE SIXTH CIECUIT. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This is an indictment under Rev. Stat. § 5440, for conspiring *376to commit an offence against the United States. The offence which the defendants are alleged to have conspired to commit and to have committed is that of causing to be carried from one State to another, viz., from Kentucky to Ohio, five papers, certificates and instruments, purporting to be and to represent chances, shares and interests in the prizes thereafter to be awarded by lot in the drawings of a lottery, commonly known as the game of policy. Act of March 2, 1895, c. 191, 28 Stat. 963. It appears that the lottery in question…
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- United States v. McGuireCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1933
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