Ackerschott v. United States

WILBUR, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from conviction and sentence for violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 141, R.S. § 5428. That statute, so far as here applicable, provides that “whoever, for any fraudulent purpose whatever, shall falsely represent himself to be a citizen of the United States without having been duly admitted to citizenship, shall be fined not more than $1,000, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.” The indictment herein charged that appellant, at a registration for voters at a specified election, at a time and place stated, “did knowingly, wilfully,, unlawfully,…