United States v. Byron

BEAN, District Judge.

Defendants were indicted for a violation of the latter clause of section 29 of the Criminal Code, which reads as follows:

“Whoever shall transmit to, or present at, or cause or procure to be transmitted to, or presented at, any office or officer of the government of the United States, any deed, power of attorney, order, certificate, receipt, contract, or other writing, in support of, or in relation to, any account or claim, with intent to defraud the United States, knowing the same to be false, altered, forged, or counterfeited,” etc., shall he punished accordingly.

It is…