Hamilton v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk; Edmund Waddill, Judge. E. Hamilton and others were convicted of endeavoring and conspiring to make a revolt as merchant seamen, and they bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
A general verdict of guilty was found against the appellants, seamen of the United States merchant ship Poughkeepsie, on an indictment framed under section 292 of Penal Code (Comp. St. § 10465). The first count charged an endeavor to make a revolt; the second, conspiracy to make a revolt; the third, a combination and conspiracy “to refuse and neglect to perform their proper duty on board of the said vessel.”
The pivotal question is whether the evidence required the direction of á verdict of acquittal. The shipping articles, dated August 5, 1919, stipulated for the voyage…
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