Pinkerton v. United States

McCORD, Circuit Judge.

W. Daniel Pinkerton and Walter G. Pinkerton were indicted with three others on a conspiracy charge to violate Sections 2810, 2833, 2834, 2803, and 3253 of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States, 26 U.S.C.A.Int.Rev.Code §§ 2810, 2833, 2834, 2803, 3253; 18 U.S.C.A. § 88.

The indictment contained only one count, and charged that the conspiracy set forth had existed continuously from the 12th day of August, 1938, until the 27th day of June, 1943, and within three years of the finding of the indictment which was returned by the grand jury on February 19, 1944. There…