Armstrong v. United States

GARDNER, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, hereinafter referred to as defendants, were convicted on two counts of an indictment charging them with violations of the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1897 (26 USCA §§ 411-417). One of these counts charges that:

“On the 31st day of May, 1929, at No. 3005 East 59th Street, in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, in the Western Division of the Western District of Missouri, one Charles Armstrong, alias Arnold, and one Earl C. Roberts, alias George Smith, wilfully, knowingly, unlawfully and feloniously, and with the intent then and there to defraud divers…