Harper v. United States

SYMES, District Judge.

Plaintiff in error, Harper, who will be referred to as defendant and eight others, were indicted in the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas for conspiracy. Pive of the eight were tried, and Harper, Towns, and Thompson were convicted and sentenced on the first count. All were acquitted on the second count. Harper alone brings the case here on writ of error.

The first count charged that Harper and the eight others named conspired together in violation of section 37, C. C. (USCA title 18, § 88), to violate section 135, P. C. (18 USCA § 241),…