Lefkowitz v. Schneider

WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

' Twenty-eight persons were indicted in the District Court of the United States for the Distinct of Maryland for conspiring to violate the National Prohibition Act in one way and another. Four of them, resident in New Jersey, resisted removal to Mainland for trial. At the hearing (under section 591 of Title 18 USCA, Rev. St. § 1014) all parties stood on the indictment, the only evidence introduced by anyone;' the government urging the indictment as evidence of probable cause and the defendants claiming that it did not charge a crime and therefore denying that it was…