Meldrum v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Oregon. The plaintiff in error was tried and convicted in the court below upon an indictment which contained 21 counts, alternately charging him with forging and uttering certain false affidavits.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Oregon. The plaintiff in error was tried and convicted in the court below upon an indictment which contained 21 counts, alternately charging him with forging and uttering certain false affidavits. The first count is as follows: “That Henry Meldrum on the 6th day of January, 1902, at the city of Portland, within the state and district of Oregon, for the purpose of defrauding the United States, feloniously did falsely make and forge a certain affidavit, purporting to be the affidavit of one Wm. E. Pardee, a pretended…
1Opinion of the CourtGilbert, Circuit Judge
The plaintiff in error contends, first, that the indictment does not state a crime, and that, therefore, no conviction can be based upon it; second, that the judge who tried the cause having died during the pendency of the motion for a new trial his successor in office had no power to deny said motion or to render a judgment or impose sentence.
If there were any objections in the court below' to the introduction of testimony on the ground that the indictment failed to charge an offense, they are not preserved in the record, and there is nothing now before us to show that they were made. No…
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