Bachrack v. United States

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

Appellants were convicted .on the first count of an indictment which charged them with having in their possession forged and counterfeit internal revenue stamps similar to the genuine stamps required by law to be placed upon containers of distilled spirits, “with- intent to defraud.” They were also convicted on several other counts of a similar nature, but the sentence was a general one and was such as lawfully could have been imposed on the first count. The only contention we need to consider is that the first count was fatally defective because it failed to allege ah…