Neff v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Kansas.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN Circuit Judge.
Section 5418 of the Revised Statutes provides that every person who falsely alters any affidavit for the purpose of defrauding the United States, and any person who transmits to or presents at the office of any officer of the United States for such purpose any false, forged, or altered affidavit knowing it to be false, forged, or altered, shall be punished by fine or imprisonment, or both (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3666).
On March 15, 1889, Lemuel T. Williams made a timber-culture entry of a tract of land in the state of Kansas, and on September 25, 1903, his final proof…
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