United States v. Coplon

L. HAND, Chief Judge.

The appellant, Judith Coplon, was convicted of an attempt to deliver “defence information” to a confederate, Gubitchev (Count 4) ; and she and he were convicted of conspiring to defraud the United States by making copies of documents relating to the national defence, by transmitting them to Gubitchev, and by removing and concealing them (Count 1). She was acquitted on a count, similar to Count 4, of attempting to transmit the same documents to Gubitchev (Count 2). The principal points raised upon the appeal are three: (1) the competence as evidence of certain documents…