Stirone v. United States

Petitioner Nicholas Stiróne was indicted and convicted in a federal court for unlawfully interfering with interstate commerce in violation of the Hobbs Act. The crucial question here is whether he was convicted of an offense not charged in the indictment.

So far as relevant' to this question the indictment charged the following:

From 1951’ until 1953, a man by the name of William G. Rider had a contract to supply ready-mixed concrete from his plant in Pennsylvania to be used for the erection of a steel-processing plant at Allenport, Pennsylvania. For the purpose of performing this contract Rider